Word: spinning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...candidate's chartered plane fires back across the continent against the direction of old westering tracks 30,000 ft. below. Inside the plane, the clerisy of "spin," that is, the priesthood of partisans sent around to see reporters after major campaign events and impart the right spin, have done their work up and down the aisles, like Polonius and Hamlet discussing the ! shapes of clouds. The candidate is dozing up front. The jackals of the press have settled into their routines of mild carousal...
...time, even when the ground is white: I suppose it seems like summer because I was never cold." Moments like this almost redeem the strenuous labors that Brodkey and his readers must suffer through to achieve them. Because of his fascination with autobiographical minutiae, his willingness to spin elaborate riffs on the smallest physical details, Brodkey's proponents regularly compare him to Proust. The analogy may someday prove accurate, but this book does not make the case. Perhaps Party of Animals, which is rumored to be sprawling and multivolumed, will demonstrate Proustian breadth, the ability to evoke an entire, glittering...
...radio reporters, sharpened by competition with Western broadcasting from nearby Finland. Ott believes the art of interviewing was lost during the Brezhnev years, when prepared answers to prepared questions became the norm. With Television Acquaintance he has set about reviving the genre and giving it a personal spin. As he bluntly puts it, "An interview is not a speech...
...Eliot's book of light verse, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939). The smash show has been seen by some 25 million people in 15 countries and contributed more than $2 million in royalties to the Eliot estate. Purists shudder at such commercial success and its spin-offs. Says Critic Hugh Kenner: "Eliot wanted to connect with a popular audience, but Cats wasn't what he had in mind...
...have already been to sleep at least once already"). But, as in Bright Lights, McInerney is best at being mean; the novel is too shrill, too chill for compassion. Social satire may not demand a big heart, but moralizing does, and when McInerney tries to put a bleak cautionary spin onto the proceedings, the book goes out of control, just like Alison's life, and comes crashing down, leaving no trace...