Word: spins
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JAMES SQUIRES, 49, IS AN UNLIKELY PRESS SPOKESMAN because he comes close to fitting the stereotype of the crusty, all-sides-are-suspect city editor. Perhaps that is why he has proclaimed his distaste for the impure partisanship of most political press secretaries. "I'm not a spin doctor," he says. "We don't do research on the opponents and feed it to the press." At 31, after 10 years at the Nashville Tennessean, he became the Chicago Tribune's Washington correspondent. By 34, he was the editor of the Tribune Co.-owned Sentinel in Orlando. Four years later...
...general, her language border on the surreal, presumably unconsciously. She describes the swings as "what appeared to be flexible silver stalactites" and says that "Cast members were poised...with fog machines." "Inexplicably," she writes, "actors chose to spin around the stage." Does she really think that the timing and movement of actors in a seventeen-minute play that coordinates lights, script video and sound is a choice or an accident...
...recent success with youth-oriented TV rip-offs (Addams and Wayne's, plus the Star Trek and Naked Gun series) and thinking seriously about green lighting retreads of reruns: Gilligan's Island, The Beverly Hillbillies, even The Flintstones with John Goodman as Fred. This summer's only TV spin-off may gross less yet turn out to be more memorable than any of these: David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with...
Nearly every page has something fresh to say, or a fresh spin to put on things that have grown terminally familiar. TV, McKibben observes, celebrates unlimited consumption and economic expansion; a day on the mountain reminds us that the natural world is a place of limits, of cyclical time, of death. Though it links the world in a "global village," TV erodes the sense of community, both by obliterating regional distinctions (all anchormen have the same accent) and by lampooning the community of shared values portrayed by TV in the '50s. The medium fosters a "weirdly foreshortened" sense of history...
Inexplicably, at periodic intervals, the actors chose to spin around the stage in a Lycra whirlwind, scuttling through the audience like roaches zapped with bug spray. Perhaps the audience is expected to draw a deep meaning from the sight of actors running nowhere. Perhaps...