Word: spinnings
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...Most of the procedures Ron Lane has developed from his years in the warehousing business," Schneiter says. "He's one of these people that ideas just spin...
...repose is a cool star; Li in action is a hot one. In The New Legend of Shaolin, he fights off a dozen attackers with his infant son strapped to his back. His martial poses have classic beauty and power. His spin-kicks flout all laws of physics; there's nothing like Jet Li in a foot fight. His best Hong Kong movies (such as Fong Sai Yuk and My Father Is Hero) offer buoyant, daredevil action comedy of the kind no other national cinema even tries to touch...
What exactly did Bush do to McCain to engender such bitterness? Attack ads? Everyone uses attack ads. Unfair spin? Politics always has been dirty, and no politicians can take these things personally without exploding. Sure, Bush ran a dirty campaign, but at the risk of sounding subjective, what else do you expect from a spoiled, dumb, rich, arrogant, sneering frat boy? Not that he'd be a bad president, so long as his advisors keep him from doing and/or touching anything...
...Bonaparte laid siege to Acre but took a pounding and gave it up. Not for nothing was Napoleon the great-grandfather of spin. His official Army Bulletin proclaimed a great victory. When his secretary protested such a colossal lie, Napoleon said with a smile, "Mon cher, you are a simpleton. You really don't understand a thing...
...more you hurt each other," says veteran Terry Funk, "the more money you make." Funk is one of the stars of this straightforward documentary about a multibillion-dollar, sado-spectacular "sport." Blaustein, co-writer of Eddie Murphy's Coming to America and The Nutty Professor, puts no comic spin on his love of wrestling, but he does get his beefy athlete-artistes to reveal themselves as dedicated, complicated, twisted souls--like any other actors. They know that their punishment is our pleasure...