Word: spinnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Daily Spin "Let's say I committed this crime. Even if I did do this, it would have to have been because I loved her very much, right?" -- O.J. Simpson in this month's issue of Esquire Magazine...
...Daily Spin: Long-suffering morning talk show host Kathie Lee Gifford told viewers today that her late son-in-law Michael Kennedy had passed three lie-detector tests showing that he did not start having sex with his children's babysitter until after she turned 16. "Now, that does not mean that what he did was right," Gifford said. But she says that at least the tests, if accurate, show Kennedy did not do anything illegal, and "his children deserve to know that...
...official: Yuri Baturin, Boris Yeltsin's bespectacled defense adviser, will take a spin for a week or so on Mir next year. The long-rumored trip is planned for August, during a crew changeover. Baturin, a former staff member at Energiya, the Russian space corporation that made Mir, has been secretly taking lessons in zero-G flight at Star City, the cosmonaut-training center outside Moscow. The competition to join him aloft promises to be stiff. Slovak, French and Indonesian astronauts, as well as a CNN correspondent, have already put in bids. Why would Baturin risk his life in space...
Eleven days before the election, the President is accused of sexual dalliance with a visitor to the Oval Office--an underage visitor, at that. What's needed, the spin doctor (a coolly cynical Robert De Niro) decrees, is a splendid little war to divert the populace. None being handy, one will have to be invented out of rumor and falsified electronic imagery...
Backers of The Capeman, PAUL SIMON's much ballyhooed musical, are doing their best to spin away the bad word of mouth the Broadway show is getting in previews. Too slow. Too static. Too earnest. In fact, Simon et al. are busy making cuts and changes. He's also writing a new number for star RUBEN BLADES and trying to give the show a much needed boost of energy. Director and choreographer MARK MORRIS is still in charge, but such old hands as MIKE NICHOLS, British director NICHOLAS HYTNER and Simon's buddy LORNE MICHAELS have been called...