Word: spinnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decided you weren't going to go out tonight because you have so much laundry to do. Sometimes clean underwear is more important than partying. But you don't have to choose.Party at Spin Cycle, a WFNX broadcast from Axis. And if you really can't drag yourself away from the washers and dryers, at least bring a radio in the laundry room with you. Axis, 13 Landsdowne St. 262-2437. 10 p.m.(or on radio...
...afford. So Michael Sefton, who directs the tissue-engineering center at the University of Toronto, has proposed building a "heart in a box"--complete with chambers, valves and heart muscles--from cells genetically engineered to block the signal with which the body marshals cells to attack invaders. Sefton envisions spin-offs along the way--like immune-system-resistant replacement valves--to justify the project's $5 billion cost...
...noon one Friday last month, Loren Wells and her four best friends embarked on two time-honored teenage traditions. First they went to the mall to shop for gowns for the junior prom this spring. Then they piled into Loren's black Chevrolet Corsica to go for a spin. At 3:45 that afternoon, a few miles from her home in Media, Pa., Loren's car began to drift off the highway, the sort of mistake seasoned drivers make--and correct--all the time. Sixteen-year-old Loren, who had got her license just 2 1/2 months earlier, lurched back...
...effort to show good faith, DiCaprio has issued spin-control statements, done photo ops with Buddhist monks and praised the quality of Thai cuisine. Still, the controversy rages on. Daily tabloids--yes, they have them in Thailand too--print reports that he's got his female co-star pregnant (although amused, she denies it), that he's been rude to young fans and that he's so paranoid about being poisoned that he's hired food tasters. "This is something I probably have to get used to--lies culminating in something much more hysterical and out of hand," he says...
...engaging young actors, "like we had to get used to Boyz N the Hood.") But LS&2SB has all the early signs of success. Tom Cruise's early enthusiasm for the film helped it land a U.S. distributor. The picture got ballistic buzz this year at Sundance. A spin-off series is planned for British TV. And Ritchie, 30, is a bicontinental rising star. It's not just the deal he has with Sony for his next film. It's that he's been, well, squiring Madonna. The writer-director is typically a chatty bloke, but he goes...