Word: spun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Saint James (McMillan and Wife; The Name of the Game), is a witty reinterpretation of The Odd Couple, plus three children. Both women are unabashedly in their 30s, divorced and skeptical about the mating game. If Pleshette Mary Tyler Moore developed a split personality, her two halves could be spun off as Kate and Allie. Played in wound-up preppie style by Curtin, Allie is the kind of roommate who makes meatloaf while wearing 5 pearls. Kate, a low-key tomboy, tries to unstarch Allie by taking her camping: "Come on, I'll teach you to make a fire...
...great idea. Last month Shirley Bernstein took one look at the busy renovations going on across the street from her Park Avenue place and her head spun. A deli? Not on her block...
...unique qualities. Her trademark was the seemingly effortless ability to sustain a note so long that the orchestra could play phrase after phrase of the melody. Said the Merm: "I take a breath when I have to." What she called her "take-charge" manner was so unlike the spun sugar of other musical-comedy performers that composers shaped songs for her. Among the standards that still call her voice to memory are You're the Top from Anything Goes (1934), There's No Business Like Show Business from Annie Get Your Gun (1946), and Everything's Coming...
Mission controllers exonerated the shuttle crew from any responsibility in the calamitous satellite losses. Under the direction of Physicist Ronald McNair, 33, both satellites were spun perfectly out of Challenger's cargo bay. Even so, there could be serious repercussions for NASA and the U.S. aerospace community. Unless the problem with the little boosters, called PAMs (for payload-assist modules), is resolved soon, some upcoming lift-offs may have to be postponed. PAMs are scheduled to be used for satellite launches in May as the upper stage of a conventional Delta rocket and in June during the maiden voyage...
Given the fascinating story that has been spun so far, yesterday will not be soon enough. -By Paul Gray