Word: spinnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...such engaging new subjects as bondage, the lure of homicide and the pleasures of drug-induced comas. They offer a song called Pretty Tied Up, accompanied by a drawing in the lyric sheet of a naked, bound and blindfolded woman. They also graphically invite the editor and publisher of Spin magazine, Bob Guccione Jr., to perform oral sex on the Guns N' Roses' irrepressible lead singer, W. Axl Rose...
Students complain that because the locks spin first to the left and lack handles, unlike the old entry-way mailboxes, they are difficult to open...
...does Dillon Professor of International Affairs Joseph Nye go ballistic when students parrot his ideas about "hard and soft power," "the realist paradigm" or "the myth of decline" in their papers? I doubt it. I'll bet he's glad they were paying attention. Does Voltaire spin in his grave every time a Crimson editorial follows his "I do not agree with what you say, but I would defend to the death your right to say it" reasoning? I don't think Voltaire reads The Crimson. I'd bet even the poet who penned the camel ode would be willing...
...popular explanation postulates a major role for a mysterious, invisible substance called dark matter. Astronomers have learned about dark matter through indirect evidence: galaxies spin and orbit one another faster than the laws of physics allow, unless one presumes the presence of invisible matter that provides the extra gravity to hold things together. The extra gravity of dark matter could also have helped the galaxies grow faster out of the smoothness of the early universe. Even this explanation, however, does not sufficiently account for recent observations. "It is clear that there is something profoundly wrong with our theories," says Harvard...
...even his public duties as a television reporter. Back in Britain at the Royal Air Force base in Lyneham, McCarthy took time out from being examined to deliver a letter from his captors to the U.N. Secretary-General, tootle around the base in a borrowed car and take a spin in a flight simulator. Everywhere he went he waved cheerily...