Word: spinner
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...only was there Congressional business at the time, but you don't turn John McCain into a spinner," Davis said...
Michele Ravera's e-mail address vividly describes her new hobby--heylady youreonfire@hotmail.com Ravera's a fire spinner. To get her jollies, she plays with two clumps of flaming, kerosene-soaked cotton wadding connected by a chain. As Letterman would say, Kids, don't try this at home. Visually spectacular--and spectacularly dangerous--fire spinning can now be seen not just at the Burning Man festival or in Phish-concert parking lots but also at New York City's touristy South Street Seaport and Los Angeles' Venice Beach. "When those flames are whooshing around me," sighs Ravera, "I feel like...
Sacagawea was the interpreter for Lewis and Clark; Hal Stearns fills that role on the American Spirit. Stearns is a master yarn spinner who has spent much of his life collecting Lewis and Clark lore and artifacts. A devout believer in his subject--"Along with man going to the moon in 1969, this is one of the two greatest explorations in American history," he says--he plans to use his knowledge to convert all aboard www.americanspiritrail.com 888-533-7245). --By Megan Rutherford...
...have for Jim," Metheny says. Best of all is a magically spare version of Farmer's Trust, a tender waltz originally recorded by the Metheny Group in 1982, which leaves no doubt that despite his love of ear-popping electronic effects, he is above all a wonderfully fluent spinner of simple yet indelible melodies...