Word: spun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Victor Willis, lead singer of the Village People, spun himself off into a solo career, the thump-thump-thump that reverberates through Discoland, U.S.A., was suddenly muffled. After all, the flamboyant sextet is the ruling clan of that realm; they have sold some 9 million albums and made songs like Macho Man, Y.M.C.A. and In the Navy into nocturnal national anthems. Now the beat goes on, for a onetime back-up singer named Ray Simpson has been promoted to the group, joining Cowboy Randy Jones, Construction Worker David Hodo, Indian Felipe Rose, Motorcyclist Glenn Hughes and G.I. Alex Briley...
...least a decade and more recently as an experimental therapy for other immune-system disorders like lupus erythematosis, myasthenia gravis and polymyositis, it is somewhat similar to hemodialysis for kidney patients. For three or so hours, the blood is slowly tapped from the body, shunted into a centrifuge, spun and separated into its constituents by weight: heavy red cells sink to the bottom, white cells settle in the middle, platelets and fluid plasma rise to the top. Components can be selectively removed and the rest of the blood returned immediately to the patient...
...huge banks of motorized mirrors track the sun and focus its rays into a cyclops-like eye of red heat. A mountain in North Carolina has been crowned with what appears to be a giant aircraft propeller. A large man-made atoll, resembling a top that Gulliver would have spun for the Lilliputians, may soon be floating off the coast of California. All are imaginative, experimental devices to help find and develop alternative energies, which would alleviate the dangerous dependency on OPEC...
...work at 2 a.m. Fortnight ago, as Sliwa and two other Red Berets drove off six men trying to rape a woman on a Brooklyn elevated platform, Sliwa disarmed a man with a sawed-off shotgun by using a Kung Fu kick to the head. But he himself spun over the guardrail and fell 18 feet into a freight yard. He suffered only heavy bruises and strained muscles...
...music's more recent trends, Zappa recently observed, "Disco music makes it possible for mellow, laid-back, boring kinds of people to meet each other and reproduce." Marshalling his talents to forge a particularly scathing attack on disco, Frank wrote "Dancin' Fool," which is due to be spun at Boston-Boston any night now. In this song, some lame guy decides he'd rather be a fool and get laughed at than not dance at all. "I got it all together man / With my very own disco clothes,hey! / My shirts half open, t' show you my chains...