Word: spinnings
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Strom Thurmond's staff shifted into high spin cycle after it was learned that the nonagenarian senator wrote a glowing introduction to a new book contending that the U.S. won the Cold War with alien technology recovered at the Roswell, New Mexico site that conspiracy buffs believe was the scene of an extraterrestrial crash landing in July 1947. Thurmond aides insist that "The Day After Roswell," by former Thurmond aide and retired Army intelligence officer Philip J. Corso, was not the book he thought it was. In his foreword, Thurmond praised Corso as a man "with many interesting...
...could be the poster child for "Smart Women, Foolish Choices." The first woman to fly a B-52 bomber, she was named "the most distinguished" student at flight-training school. At Minot (N.D.) Air Force Base, Flinn was chosen to take the Secretary of the Air Force for a spin...
...masterminded a CD-ROM (Steven Spielberg's Directors Chair) and oversaw the giddy, multithrill Jurassic Park ride at Universal Studios, Hollywood. Oh, yes, he also started, with Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen, a little outfit called DreamWorks SKG; Spielberg oversees the live-action film unit. And in the noblest spin-off generated by a hit movie, the director of Schindler's List established the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, which records the testimony of Holocaust survivors. In April its first film won a Peabody Award...
...Part of the magic is the drawing together of prima donnas who discover how hard it is to talk to people outside of your field and how mind-enlarging it is," Wilson said. "It really makes people's brains spin in different ways...
...Texas Book Depository Building on November 22, 1963, the cast of assassins appears as a kind of ghostly support group, each announcing his/her name and assassination in Alcoholics Anonymous-like fashion, explaining that Oswald must kill Kennedy, for their sakes. The conspiracy theory is given a new spin here, as Booth, the leader of the dead assassins, claims that the combined spirit of the assassins is "the real conspiracy." "In fifty years, they'll still be arguing about the grassy knoll," he says; Oswald will live on in infamy. [In describing the demise of Willy Loman in Arthur Miller...