Word: spinnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...candidates distinguish themselves on campus by their vast store of past and current political knowledge. They spend a lot of time at the Institute of Politics shepherding around national and world leaders. They know what the polls are predicting a year half before the election, and they know what spin to put on every issue, what sound bite to use in every situation...
...would have needed more spin doctors than there are in Bill Clinton's staff to pluck optimism from the bitter New England spring...
...would have needed more spin doctors than there are in Bill Clinton's staff to pluck optimism from the bitter New England spring...
Ralph Waldo Emerson, the least Balkan of men, formulated the American theology of forward spin. He might have been speaking to the Balkans when he asked, "Why drag about this monstrous corpse of your memory...
...NATO at the negotiating table. Time for Madeleine and the boys at State to start boning up on their Nimzo-Indian defense. Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) is the best chess movie CP has ever seen (although the Russian wrestler from Kubrick's The Killing should have got a spin-off movie of his own). It's also about a player whose every contest is haunted by history. NATO knows about that -- it's searching for Munich and terrified of finding Vietnam instead...