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Word: spinnings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fourth of the vocal quartet Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young; an anti-Nixon protester in the '70s; a sometime Reagan sympathizer in the '80s. Now in the '90s Young is a father figure for a new generation of alternative rockers. He turns the ignition key. The engine roars, tires spin and the Northern California roadhouse where his car was parked quickly fades in the rearview mirror. "Age," says the 49-year-old rocker, "makes no difference with music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: NEIL YOUNG, GIFTED AND BACK | 7/3/1995 | See Source »

...applying this statement to Dole, employ the same strategy. Their message: "Attack us now if you dare, Senator Dole! If you so much as try to point out entertainment industry shortcomings, we'll stick you with the charge of anti-Semitism so fast it will make your head spin...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: Dole Fights the Good Fight | 6/27/1995 | See Source »

...administration over the dangers of the growing deficit. The hundreds of undergraduates who take Feldstein's "Ec 10," usually the largest course at Harvard, will get a detailed explanation of why Marty was right, as well as a presentation of the basics of micro and macro with a conservative spin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Well-Known Professors Make Campus Star-Gazing Fun | 6/27/1995 | See Source »

...present fantasy. We drive home the point that this is not real, and we tell children not to play karate at home." Some of Fox's kids' shows actually do have redeeming quality-Steven Spielberg's Animaniacs spouts Shakespeare and Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? is a cartoon spin-off of the geography-minded pbs show. But the Power Rangers and their imitators will continue to be the bane of parents' and educators' existence-until something new comes along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: GLUED TO THE TUBE | 6/26/1995 | See Source »

...managed to get me down in a corner, she would have to hold one of my wrists to keep me within flyswatter distance while she flailed in my direction. At best, she made contact about ten percent of the time ... Locked together this way, the two of us would spin from room to room with Grandma at our perimeter in her wheelchair, scolding and bitching and calling down the wrath of God on that spoiled ungrateful child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: WILD CHILD | 6/26/1995 | See Source »

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