Word: spins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...members of Knott's Intelligence and Reconnaissance unit are mavericks with high test scores and a low opinion of exposing themselves to hostile fire. Nearly half of them were casualties of a battle in the Saar. The survivors are an antidote to the Dirty Dozen and their sordid spin-offs in film and fiction. The oldest members of the outfit are called Mother and Father; there is a no-obscenity rule, and the favorite pastime is not poker but a demonic version of bridge. The men also share their reading. As Knott, ever the illuminating ironist, puts...
...Saturday Review of Literature, as it was called until 1952, began in 1924 as a spin-off of the weekly books supplement to the New York Post. The founding editor, Henry Seidel Canby, was a Yale lecturer in literature and chief judge for 32 years of the Book-of-the-Month Club. A key associate was William Rose Benet, a Pulitzer-prize-winning poet. In 1940, control passed to Norman Cousins, then 25, whose editorial interests took in the sciences, travel, the music-recording business and, above all, politics. A dedicated liberal activist, he used SR's once staid...
...good. Is that enough? Does beauty stop at the skin line? For this kind of woman, it does. She will be sitting alone, in an empty room, with her perfect body." Calvin Trillin, The New Yorker journalist and humorist, wonders whether this new ideal woman is only a media spin-off from the popularity of Jane Fonda and her bestselling Workout Book (see box page 75). "For the public good," Trillin says, "the more people who can lift the end of a car off the ground in case of trouble, the better. But I'm not sure...
...failure of the Gulf-Cities Service merger sends Wall Street into a spin...
...shirt. Feeling quick and clever, I ran on in a crouch. In a stand of small trees, too skinny for good cover, a red player and I caught sight of each other and began to shoot. The pistols made phutt, phutt noises. I could see the paint pellets spin past me, although they were too fast to duck away from. My fourth or fifth shot hit the red player, who said "Aaaargh!"the way comic-book villains used to do when they got bopped by Captain Marvel, whom I now felt myself to resemble...