Word: spinnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...White House spin all year, repeated five times daily like a call to prayer, is that the President is going about the people's business, not obsessing about his legal defense. But he doesn't need to pull every lever and push every button in order to control the campaign machine. After two elections and a full year of fire by trial, says a top aide, "we know what he wants, when he wants it, and how he wants...
...that silence isn't excellent statesmanship. The press scrum by the Ohio clock just outside the Senate chamber is not a sight you want the children to see on their class trip. The lights go on, and Senators come out to put their spin on the day as if emerging from a war room. Senator John Chafee usually manages to drone on long enough to hip-check a horde of Democrats lurking behind him hoping to pounce before CNN ceases its live coverage...
...mean, Falwell had to be the laziest preacher alive. He's all talk, no action. What was he so busy with that was more important than finding the Antichrist? Fixing the Y2K bug? Eating doughy fried foods? Let's find him, Jer, and make his little Jewish head spin like a dreidel. I was pumped...
...sang it with feeling. President Clinton Sunday joined a Methodist congregation in a hearty rendition of "We Shall Overcome," using Martin Luther King as the perfect launch pad for what may be the most important week of his presidency. The spin connection was made explicit in the Rev. J. Philip Wogaman's sermon: Dr. King was a flawed man, but his personal flaws are eclipsed by his historic achievements. While the President's lawyers prepare to slice and dice the prosecution's reading of both the facts and the law on Tuesday, Clinton hopes to shift attention to his accomplishments...
...this age of millennium bugs, impeachment trials and ghosts of biological warfare, Picasso at the Lapin Agile takes us back to a gentler time, when the future was something to harness not something that would spin out of our hands, threatening to engulf our present civilization...