Word: spinnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Daily Spin "We are not in a position to provide a full and complete account, so the art is to make sure everything we say is truthful and credible." --Mike McCurry, press secretary for President Clinton, on the Lewinsky scandal...
...three weeks now, the leaks have come so fast and steady that they feel like an official daily briefing. But they are an underground river in which fact and gossip and memory spin past the truth and flow straight through any number of agendas. Lewinsky's lawyers want to keep their client out of jail. The President's men want to keep their man in office. Independent counsel Kenneth Starr wants to keep his investigation moving, and the leaks have a way of flushing out witnesses he may not know about. And all sorts of other lawyers and witnesses, dreaming...
...Games also unveiled a new kind of East-is-West spin to things. The 516-lb. wrestler who sanctified the earth, after all, was a Hawaiian (called in when the only wrestler stronger than he is contracted bronchitis), and the rousing chorus of Beethoven's Ninth (a perennial Japanese Christmas favorite) was conducted by Seiji Ozawa, just returned from Boston. Andrew Lloyd Webber was responsible for the ad-worthy chorus, When Children Rule the World (and the producer of the whole extravaganza was the man responsible for a Japanese West Side Story...
...Daily Spin "Kids and dog for hire. Life term contract. Sad gits need not apply." Newspaper advertisement for new parents taken out by 10-year-old British twins Lauren and Ashton Mills, whose mother is dying of cancer...
...Daily Spin "Kids and dog for hire. Life term contract. Sad gits need not apply." Newspaper advertisement for new parents taken out by 10-year-old British twins Lauren and Ashton Mills, whose mother is dying of cancer...