Word: spinnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Saturday, the attaches' first brutal attacks had succeeded in violently dismantling three separate pro-democracy marches. Gunmen swaggered through the streets of the capital, boasting that they would kill anyone who tried to shut them down. Such eruptions of violence dispelled the spin, confidently put forward by one Clinton Administration official, that everything was going well and unfolding according to a White House plan "adopted months before we went ashore." Americans were confused by successive scenes of trouble in Haiti: sometimes U.S. soldiers stepped in, sometimes they did not. The true nature of American involvement remained hazy as the troops...
Some people think poetry is dead, but it's not; it's just underground, disguised as songwriting. Once, a reclusive Emily Dickinson could spin out her feathery verses and send them next door to her sister-in-law, content to preserve her New England obscurity. Today a would-be Dickinson is more likely to grab a guitar, put together a backup band and hit the road. That was precisely the path taken by Nanci Griffith, a wide-eyed Texas waif who may just be one of America's best poets -- and for sure is one of its best songwriters...
...slip back into it." And, according to a federal grand jury, he went out of his way to make certain she didn't. Last week details emerged about how Aramony, the former president of United Way of America, allegedly supported his then teenage mistress with funds siphoned through a spin-off company from the $3 billion charity he headed. Aramony's Sept. 13 indictment described how he sent her flowers, provided her with limousine rides, flew her to vacations, gave her use of a New York City condo, made out checks to her for "consulting," presented her with...
Among those mentioned in the indictment was Rina Duncan, an aide to Aramony. The indictment states that Aramony and Duncan had a "personal relationship" and that Villasor said she would leave Aramony unless Duncan took a job elsewhere. Aramony found work for Duncan at Partnership Umbrella, the U.W.A. spin-off company that he would use to fund his affair with Villasor. As for Villasor, the exhaustive account of her relationship with Aramony suggests that she too cooperated with the grand jury. Her affair with Aramony ended two years...
Rowe faces daunting tasks. In addition to his spin control duties, he is in charge of Harvard's relations with local, state and national lawmakers. Much of his time is likely to be spent battling budget conscious lawmakers bids to reduce research money...