Word: spinnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jack, it is the slick Yardley Acheman who winds up consoling lonely Charlotte. But Jack has found other reasons to dislike Yardley. He has noticed that Ward does all the hard digging for facts: He wanted to have it exactly right. Yardley hangs around waiting to put his stylish spin on what Ward uncovers. "We get into too much detail," Jack hears Yardley complain at one point. "It ruins the narrative flow." Yardley comes up with a crucial and convenient piece of the puzzle...
Broaden choices? That's an interesting spin. By this logic, if students were forced to list their top 12 houses, we could guarantee they got one of their choices...
This latest case of theft makes one's head spin. When it comes to picking crooks off the street and handing them jobs, it seems that only the voters of Italy can do a better job than fair Harvard...
Remorseless drinking has long been as much a ritual of university life as football, final exams and frat parties. Almost every college graduate can spin at least a few tales about a boisterous night of carousing that culminated in slugging shots of tequila at sunrise or tossing drained kegs into the president's pool. Even Thomas Jefferson had to contend with a group of drunken rowdies who caused a near riot at the school that he founded, the University of Virginia. Ever since then, periodic efforts to crack down on excessive alcohol consumption among young scholars have been largely futile...
Sexual harassment is a good subject for legal briefs, psychological studies and outraged essays. It is not a natural topic for popular entertainments. Typically (to put it mildly), the protagonist lacks heroic stature, and it is hard to spin a plot of page-turning intricacy from such a crude offense...