Word: spins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...house in a room that has no mirrors?"Mirrors make you pose," he has said?and cuts loose to his own music or to the Isley Brothers' Showdown, practicing what Dancer Hinton Battle calls "moves that kill. It's the combinations that really distinguish him as an artist. Spin, stop, pull up leg, pull jacket open, turn, freeze. And the glide, where he steps forward while pushing back. Spinning three times and popping up on his toes. That's a trademark, and a move a lot of professionals wouldn't try. If you go up wrong, you can really hurt...
...glimpse of Jackson, that "he looks so sad." She thinks the reason may be that "everybody is always shoving things in his face." Occasionally Jackson comes out to the yard. Sometimes he will ride a red-and-white motor scooter. Sometimes he will take his electric car for a spin. It is a close copy of a vehicle from Mr. Toad's Wild Ride at Disneyland. Outside the iron gates, the fans on the street can see him whizzing along the driveway, playing by himself, and at those times, he is too far away for anyone to see his face...
...lead with? The rest of the population asks it more generally: What matters most? It comes to the same puzzle. Survey events in a given period of time and try to come up with the single moment, the headline, by which the world may be characterized, stopped in its spin. In the past couple of weeks, the press has stood chest-high in choices. In Lebanon: one more last battle for Beirut; the disintegration of the Gemayel government; the pull-out of the U.S. Marines. In the Soviet Union: the death of Yuri Andropov and the succession of Konstantin Chernenko...
...hockey crowd going 'Grrr, kill 'em!' "), they went out to skate for the medal. "The music was so loud and the crowd was so loud that we couldn't hear," recalls Kitty. "I always count the camels [the number of revolutions in a special spin] for Peter, and nobody can tell. But this time I was just screaming them." Peter adds, "It didn't matter, though. Out of the corner of my eye, I could see that we were so symmetrical, so as one, that it was as if something had taken us over...
...winner in 1988. Small and fragile-looking, she skates with elegant ease and has some of Witt's knack of making the Axels and the Salchows look simple. She was the crowd's favorite, swirling and swooping through a move she has patented as the "Chin spin": stretching out to brush the ice with one hand while she whirls with one leg fully extended. After finishing second overall in the combined short and long programs, she is no longer a comer, but the star of a new generation...