Word: spinnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...image has been an alluring paradox: at once darling suburban teacher and predatory monster; so blond, so pretty, so...dangerous to children? She is more complicated, of course, and soon several magazines will render her in brushstrokes instead of spray paint. But even here there is haste: Mirabella and Spin rushed out advance copies of their articles last week to preview salacious disclosures. Letourneau, in jail but hardly incommunicado, expected less trumpeting and more deliberation, since she had cooperated closely with both writers. For their part, the Fualaaus have sold the story and pictures of Vili to a tabloid...
...from Western Samoa, he loves art and music, and when strangers come by to meet him--and many, many strangers want to meet him these days--he and Mom Soona usually begin by showing them his artwork. He draws allegorical cartoons, zany characters with deeper meanings. Later this month Spin will run a sample depicting Mary's courtroom as a circus where Fear is the central, spear-wielding character...
...long months that she waited to plead guilty (last summer) and be sentenced (in November), Mary and Steve barely spoke. According to Spin, she had to sleep in the car outside their home because she was under court orders not to live in the same house as children, even her own. In a series of interviews with the TV tabloid show American Journal, Steve said he cried often during this period and his children were confused and devastated...
...Nixon, Starr's speech was pointedly delivered on the 24th anniversary of the day that president refused to let the courts hear his Oval Office tapes -- and to the same audience, the San Antonio Bar Association, that Jaworski addressed in that year. So the independent counsel is trying to spin Intern-gate into Watergate, and himself into Jaworski. Spinning the evidence might be a taller order: Whatever else the Tripp tapes contain, they're no smoking...
...this year, the empire struck back. Specifically--and it doesn't take a media-savvy K-schooler to notice--Harvard has embarked on a spin campaign, an effort to insulate itself from gender-based threats to its prestige and fundraising power...