Word: spinnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...called Third Way of economic policy, a sort of free-market advocacy with a social conscience--he taught at Harvard for 10 years. A father of three and an avid tennis player--he's a hard-serving, hard-hitting sort of player, as opposed to Greenspan and his cagey spin serves--Summers is a former cancer patient, found to have Hodgkins disease in 1983. He underwent a year of chemotherapy before battling the disease into remission...
...files, Warner, 52, comes across as rather more donnish than Madonnaish. Ever since that Virgin Mary book, however, she has built a genre-defying career by filling in the gaps between high art and low, merging an encyclopedic knowledge of art history, mythology and language to put her original spin on such subjects as Joan of Arc, the female form and, most famously, fairy tales. Her 1994 From the Beast to the Blonde was a sort of search for Mother Goose: a look at the (mainly female) tellers of fairy tales that is filled with such tidbits as why Bluebeard...
Talk about spin doctors. The furor in India's Congress party over the foreign origins of its leader, Sonia Gandhi, may yet turn out to be an elaborate form of political inoculation. Mrs. Gandhi resigned as party leader Monday, after three senior leaders wrote a letter insisting that no foreign-born person should be allowed to be in charge of India. The action came after Congress's fiercest rival, the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), made clear that it planned to make Mrs. Gandhi's Italian birth the centerpiece of its campaign in an election bereft of policy issues...
...same characters and story into 250 pages, which Andersen could easily have done, and you'd have an amusing satire; at 659 pages, you're trying to create something Important. There are two problems with this strategy: first, to get it all in, Andersen is forced to spin scenes in which one character sort of asks another, "Tell me about how that works"--whereupon Andersen hijacks the character's voice for an invariably brilliant riff on news anchors or online stock trading or the politics of software...
Both have mentioned how they would love to serve their country as United States Senator. How wonderful democracy is! Wait a minute. Neither Hillary Clinton nor Rudy Giuliani is an innocent entrant into politics. Both are die-hard veterans, with Clinton's having been a central player in the spin-cycling, rumor-floating, telegenic Clinton White House and Giuliani on the defense for his conniving measures against pedestrians and taxi drivers and his lackadaisical response to rising police brutality. And they are certainly not immune from the dirty work involved in campaigning. Clinton went on talk shows to talk about...