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...Maybe Grasso was nervous about the wiring holding up. But I was breathing easy again. Spin - and symbiotic, mutually desired journalism - was back...
...crew is waiting nearby to do an interview. A couple of years ago, Shakira did an MTV Unplugged show that MTV passed on but that aired on MTV Latin America. Now, with her new CD getting revved up, the network plans to air the show on its spin-off channel MTV2, along with some spliced-in interviews with the star herself. Her mainstreaming moment has finally arrived. A couple of years back, when Latin stars weren't so much in vogue, Shakira's stuff couldn't have got play on MTV2...
...checking its systems, assessing its structures and finding places to put its emotions, the Dow and NASDAQ will let another three days pass before returning Monday morning to the business of buys and sells, puts and calls, fear and optimism. Only then will the American economic world start to spin again in earnest...
Franzen's literary heroes are the masters of the paranoid, postmodern novel--William Gaddis, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo--writers who spin huge plots full of manic undertakings and dense riffs on civilization and its discontents. The book he put aside to write The Corrections was cut from that cloth. "It had prisons, race relations, stock-market corrections," Franzen says. "The 'corrections' in the finished book are more personal." The social disorders of the 21st century are expressed mostly through the personal distempers of the three siblings and their flight to the false consolations of sex, careerism and consumerism. "They...
...course, of overwhelming importance in our planet's history, since it reduced Earth's rotational wobble and set the stage for ocean tides and ultimately life, not to mention untold moon-June poesy. Earlier simulations required a much larger object crashing into an Earth only partly formed and spinning too fast to explain Earth's current rotational rate--our 24-hour day. One study needed two separate impacts to scale back the spin rate...