Word: spins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Kennedy offered no concrete solutions to the present ills of America, or any clear program for voting out the current Administration, he did spin a web of rhetoric to ensnare President Nixon...
...poetry and purpose in space. The world is already reaping the benefits of the space program. Improved weather forecasting by earth satellites, for example, has saved millions of dollars in property damage and an untold number of lives by warning of dangerous storms. Other benefits are less visible: technological spin-offs from space research, which include everything from improved kitchen appliances to navigational aids with pinpoint accuracy. NASA has helped the economy directly. At its peak in 1966, NASA employed or provided jobs through its major industrial contractors for almost half a million people. Less tangible but no less significant...
...Donleavy writes sad and lonely books. From The Ginger Man to The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B, his fictional worlds seem to spin through an otherwise lifeless universe. They are closed worlds, their boundaries no more distant than the most prominent erectile tissue. Alone, without context or meaning, the flesh...
...Graham is not too pleased with the Jesus Freak brand of Christianity. For one thing, there is that image of Christ as the original hippie. Ignoring those famous words about taking no thought for earthly goods and considering the lilies of the field ("They toil not, neither do they spin"), Graham insisted to his Second Chicago Crusade audience that Jesus "worked hard with his hands, and he was certainly not a dropout." As for the popular rock opera, Jesus Christ, Superstar: "It lacks a clear, compelling testimony of Scripture to the person of Jesus Christ," said Billy. "Over and over...
...Today," says Rock-Concert Producer Dennis Wilen, "any kid can take his tape recorder to a Rolling Stones performance and become a millionaire." Bootlegging-the production and sale of records by black-market operators -is easy. Enough of it is going on that record-industry executives are in a spin. Perhaps one out of every four stereo tapes sold in the U.S. is a bootleg, turned out by somebody who simply copied the original. According to industry estimates, bootlegging costs the recording companies, music publishers and artists as much as $100 million yearly in lost sales and royalties. Except...