Word: spinnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...TURN our apathy around is to take up the weapons of modern politics--the video camera and the threat of bad press--and invert them for the good. This idea has two parts. The first--"Maumauing the Spin Doctors"--uses the threat of negative publicity to force political debate. The second, and more important, part--which does not need a catchy title--concentrates on encouraging real, face-to-face dialogue between politicians and our generation...
...Basically, these people and their video cameras would demand to see a politician in order to have a face-to-face dialogue. If the politician refuses, the group gets a nice video, a la "Roger and Me," that it can distribute to television stations. It is "Mau-mauing the Spin Doctors" and it turns the weapon of the political hack--the negative sound bite--against those who refuse to meet and talk to their constituents. It is punishment for the wicked...
...critics simply do not know him well enough. Now he's taking pains to make sure those who know him best take a kindly view. BETSEY WRIGHT, his former chief of staff, has left a fellowship at Harvard's Kennedy School for a new assignment as Clinton's spin doctor -- in Arkansas. Clinton has been battered by critical stories in the national press, and some have been echoed in local papers. Wright has been barraging local reporters with faxes and phone calls, claiming the national papers are Arkansas bashers that often get their facts wrong. The strategy seems...
Still, Sendero is in a class by itself. With a human rights record that makes one's head spin, Sendero's leader Abimale Guzman Reynoso aims not just at revolution, but at a society modeled explicitly on China during the Cultural Revolution...
...attempted fratricide by his brothers) surround Joseph; his brothers, still driven by jealousy, end up selling him as a slave to a rich Egyptian. A further mixture of tragi-comic events culminate in Joseph's condemnation to a jail cell. From there, the story spirals into an exciting spin and eventually Joseph finds himself in the Pharaoh's service...