Word: spinnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spin language, they call it vision. In the annals of Seventh Avenue, it's known as persistence. Tommy Hilfiger, 45, began in the apparel business peddling jeans, mostly around New York State. In 1984, with backing from Hong Kong tycoon Mohan Murjani, he set up his own shop. Hilfiger led with his chin, with ads in which he compared himself to Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein. The industry laughed--here was a tyro pushing rip-off designs and affecting to be an immortal. But Hilfiger was dogged. He came to recognize the flair in black street style, recombined it with...
...Chicago Tribune and the Wall Street Journal. Only the New York Post went for it. Releasing it to other papers before its actual publication, Bunton insists, was simply an effort to protect the Star's scoop after Morris had been alerted to the story. Said Bunton: "The White House spin doctors might well try and do some damage control, and Dick Morris might resign quietly for personal reasons before we came out. We had five days before we were going on sale. So we got a bit nervous...
...respectively). Meanwhile Bill Cosby and Phylicia Rashad will be renewing their fictional marriage in CBS's Cosby. Also returning to TV comedy with hopes of another big hit: Family Ties' Michael J. Fox, pop culture's perkiest avatar of the greed years. As the star of ABC's Spin City, Fox plays a deputy mayor who surely isn't making the six figures Alex Keaton would have hoped for. And expect to see thirtysomething's famed yuppies, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Steadman, doing a lot less brooding. The CBS drama EZ Streets features Ken Olin as a non-Volvo-driving...
That even Rollins' public confessions have a spin on them is apparent in his recounting of one of our early conversations in which he quotes me as telling him that he is "the best in the business." My recollection is it was Rollins himself who said he was the best in the business. The only thing I have ever considered him the best at is convincing others of how good he is. But yes, I did say his political profession is "a s____ business." JIM SQUIRES Versailles, Kentucky...
...journalists, will all tell you they got no news leaks from me. The most malicious of Rollins' untruths is that I have soured on the press and view it as an enemy. I still love the press; what I detested then and still do is the ability of political spin doctors like Rollins to manipulate it and to deceive it with misinformation. It is Rollins' political profession that has earned my disdain...