Word: spins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Check them out, tune them in, slip them on, let them spin. Herewith, a spring garland of rock and pop, with a few sprigs of hemlock for good measure...
...attention. In a series ABC is considering, Once Upon a Spy, a woman plays a James Bond-like character, while her cowardly male partner wants to stay home and play chess. To match the soft-core female pornography of Charlie's Angels, ABC is also looking at a spin-off called Charlie's Devils, with three macho males chasing the baddies. Dancer Fitzgerald does not say what those sexy devils will be wearing, but it probably will be as little as possible. In CBS's Kops, California marshals patrol the coast in shorts and T shirts. Moral...
...junkets to the Middle East. As a reporter, he finds that his beat reminds him less of his basketball days than of another sport. "Any eventa bombing in Baghdad, a riot in Syriacan have repercussions elsewhere," he says. "You have to assess the angle and spin of developments, as if the area were a giant billiards game...
...Project, Author Tom Wolfe contended that John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth, had plenty of the "right stuff." Though Glenn eventually traded his g-suit for a wardrobe more befitting a Democratic Senator from Ohio, he accepted an invitation from the U.S. Marines for a test spin in an AV-8A Harrier at Quantico, Va. A former test pilot, Glenn took the jet up to speed, made a couple of race-track turns and a few takeoffs and landings. Clearly, enough of the right stuff is left...
Anne Tyler has filled her splendid new novel Morgan's Passing with this same hostility to analysis. Morgan Gower, her protagonist, defies analysis or explanation. He acts with a breathtaking lack of reason, and his thoughts and feelings spin in a jumble of delusion, nostalgia, and impulsiveness. He still perplexes his wife Bonnie after 20 years. He confuses and embarrasses his daughters by wearing funny hats and keeping a pet goat in his Victorian mansion. Even Morgan doesn't understand himself. He revels in the total absurdity of everything he does...