Word: spins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...advantage. Labourites attacked the Tories for insufficient school funding, delays in the care offered by the National Health Service, and high unemployment. Though Kinnock displays a sharp tongue in House of Commons debates, he has a penchant for obscure verbal meanderings when campaigning; a platoon of media advisers and spin doctors limited Kinnock's appearances and oversaw his every move...
...speak from the middle-class, middle-aged point of view, of course: too young for Medicare, too old for Head Start, too rich for food stamps, too poor to be invited up to Kennebunkport for a spin on the President's powerboat. If we hate incumbents, it's because we no longer know what they're incumbing over. For most of us, government at the federal level is an increasingly mythical enterprise: a media show in which a bunch of fellows, possibly former stars of Rogaine commercials, are paid to bounce checks and spit at one another...
...Eventually, corrupt FBI men, a guy who claims to be CIA (Mickey Rourke in a role small enough so he doesn't wear out his welcome), some crooked arms dealers and a sexy mystery woman (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) all cherchez le loot. Director Roger Donaldson puts a curiously cheerful spin on paranoia, and Willem Dafoe, as a deputy sheriff, provides a knowing parody of Charlton Heston doing jut-jawed heroics...
...adolescent psyche. I listened to them when I was awake; I listened to them when I was asleep; I bought their LP's their EP's, a three-inch CD single, their violinist's solo album, their collaborations with Eugene Chadbourne and all of the albums done by a spin-off group, Monks of Doom. I saw them in concert; I sat in the second row; I bought a t-shirt...
...addition to Schulman, others criticalof the parody put a hopeful spin on their visionof the journal's future...