Word: spinnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rare media interview published in the Washington Post, Tripp said that her appearance provides an opportunity to fight back against the vilification she claims to have suffered over her taped conversations with Lewinsky. But the White House spin machine appears ready to roll, with White House aide Sydney Blumenthal in the New York Times recounting some of the questions he faced from Starr's prosecutors in an effort to paint the investigation as a coy probe of the President's libido. But beyond getting his witnesses to elaborate on the definitions of what constitutes a sexual act, Starr's eyes...
Fashion spectacle, paparazzi-jammed galas, mindless sex talk--is this what the road map to greater female empowerment has become? If feminism is, as Gloria Steinem has said for decades, "a revolution and not a public relations movement," why has it come to feel so much like spin...
...their part, chagrined Justice Department officials labored all week to put the best spin on the situation. Attorney General Janet Reno was characteristically blunt. "We still think we can proceed and we'll do so," she said on Wednesday. "We will prevail in the long run," a senior Justice official told The Netly News. "You have to look at these things like other epic legal battles. There are days when you have progress. This was a step backwards." Says the official: "These judges are wrong, and their decision, if it were binding, that's not what...
...bureau chief Scott MacLeod, in Tehran for the game, predicted that an Iran victory would create discomfort for Khatami's conservative foes by prompting massive demonstrations and by showing the "Great Satan" as fair players and gracious losers. While the country's conservative spiritual leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, sought to spin it as a "bitter defeat" for the "arrogant opponent," the fact that it was celebrated on the streets by hundreds of thousands of men and women mixing freely represented a challenge to Khamenei. "Getting people onto the street to celebrate something as simple as a soccer match is a challenge...
...does all this equal a company in trouble? Burke, who left after 12 productive years at the company (he is credited with turning around the troubled Euro Disney park in France), offers up some heartfelt pro-Eisner spin. "This whole situation is a lot less sexy and nefarious than people believe," he says. "Eisner is the most interesting combination of entertainment and business talent in the entertainment business--maybe in any business--and the company still has one of the greatest collections of business talent that I've ever seen." In fact, the defections can be seen as backhanded praise...