Word: spins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although some contestants have walked away with more than $100,000 in cash and prizes, Woods could only spin his way to a ten-speed blender, some rice, cortisone cream, and the Leg's pantyhose...
...show, contestants who correctly answer "general knowledge trivia questions" are permitted to spin the "Whammy wheel" which offers cash and prizes. But, if the "whyammy" turns up, not only does the player lose a turn, but also all the prizes and money which he or she had previously accumulated. Woods answered three questions correctly and spun three times, but in each turn he spun a "whammy...
...done this past season is what NBC did the season before--make a lot of bad choices," says NBC Chairman Grant Tinker. "It'll take time to turn that ocean liner of bad choices around, but they'll do it." ABC has announced plans to introduce a spin-off of Dynasty next fall, and it has several major mini-series in the works, including a ten-hour dramatization of John Jakes' best seller North and South and a 20-hour version of Herman Wouk's War and Remembrance...
Missile defenses could also be foiled. Boost times could be shortened, perhaps to as little as 50 sec., by equipping attack missiles with more powerful rocket thrusters and toughening their skins so that they could withstand a faster trip through the atmosphere. Missiles could also be made to spin like rifle bullets, so that laser or particle beams could not dwell on one spot, and be given reflective coatings to deflect or diffuse the beams. To be sure, the Soviets would pay a price: such measures would reduce the numbers of warheads and decoys that a missile could carry...
...could be a scene out of "Fame": a box in the corner cranks out the music, a slight figure in black yet is out the beat, and 23 bodies jump, spin, and twist across the room...