Word: spinnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proposed a deal with the city earlier this month, offering the CASPAR homeless shelter a piece of university land, we were a little suspicious. MIT has fought for more than five months to get the shelter off their property and recent weeks have seen MIT brazenly attempting to spin some good PR out of their selfish proposal. It turns out that we, and the rest of the city, had good reason to worry...
...House? Answered one: The names of my kid's teachers. Said another: The cost of a quart of milk. How successful was the effort at high-level bonding? Well, friendly feelings can help. But trust is at best fragile in a town where every player tries to put a spin on events. During a separate session, Cabinet members got a tongue- lashing on keeping one's lip zipped around nosy reporters. Result: Details of the discussions were all over town as soon as they got back...
Beys has come under fire for his involvement in organizing concerts. In February 1992, the council endorsed a privately organized Spin Doctors concert at Beys' bidding. The concert was successful and Beys received the praise of the 300 persons in attendance, but he was criticized for using the council's resources to help his friends, who had organized the event...
While Peck suggests that stories which mourn death can also sustain life, what makes this novel truly heartbreaking is his understanding of the limits of stories--the stubborn persistence of real life. Peck possess the double ability to spin beautiful fictions and then expose their falsity. As John watches the emaciated Martin die. Peck offers a delicate, gruesome image: "The way his shoulders shook and the way his bones poked at his wet skin made me think of old rice-paper lanterns shaking in the wind, starting to melt in the rain...
...Richard Nixon had left himself 11 weeks in which to spin-doctor his own reputation, we still wouldn't speak of him in hushed tones today. But he might have escaped disgrace. Major political figures usually have the power but seldom the time to save their reputations...