Word: spinnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gantt lied when he earlier denied that he favored abortion in such cases? Not quite. Gantt's words were snipped from a longer answer at a press conference restating his consistent pro-choice position. Even campaign ads responding to out-of-bounds attacks now take on a further negative spin. A new spot for Alabama Democratic gubernatorial challenger Paul Hubbert begins, "Guy Hunt's launched a vicious negative campaign. He can't run on his record, so he's resorted to outrageous false attacks...
...little heavier on personal drama. Black, who writes or co-writes most of his tunes, seems to save himself for his music. Brooks, who co-wrote only three of the cuts on his new second album, No Fences, is more actor than writer; he knows how to put some spin on the standard bio. "Not knowin' nothin' about a lot of stuff, that's me," he says, before launching into a sketch of his college experience ("I was a javelin thrower; at least I wore a uniform that said I was"); his early years with music ("Stunk at everything...
...ever ready to fence it. Nice crowd. Shuttling among them, wooed and wounded by them all, is Tom Reagan (Gabriel Byrne), an existential hero with a black Irish soul. We spend most of the movie racing after Tom's mind, trying to figure what devious plan it will spin next...
...second down, it was Robinson again--this time on a fake reverse. A blitzing Gordian broke into the backfield and forced Robinson up into the teeth of the Harvard line. As Robinson tried to spin out of a tackle, senior end Barry Littman jarred the ball loose, and Sparks recovered to squelch the threat...
Although Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait failed to keep George Bush away from Kennebunkport, prospects of war in the Persian Gulf are changing many other vacation plans. The crisis has sent the world travel industry into a spin. Vacationers and commercial travelers are hastily scrapping plans to visit not only the affected Arab states but also the entire Middle East and eastern Mediterranean. Major airlines are improvising detours for regularly scheduled flights, and airlines and airports have tightened security in anticipation of a possible rise in terrorism...