Word: spun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jets swooped in formation, spun in circles, flew upside down: the show at the U.S. Air Force base in Ramstein, West Germany, this month was flashy enough to draw some 300,000 enthusiastic spectators. Yet as the display appeared on West German television and in newspapers and magazines, the main event seemed not to have been the five-hour show, but rather the largely nonviolent arrest of about 250 left-wing demonstrators by U.S. military police. For the protesters, who sought to publicize their opposition to scheduled European deployment of U.S. medium-range nuclear missiles, the day was a triumph...
Franz Biberkopf presses his hands to the sides of his head, as if he were about to pulverize a rancid cantaloupe, and screams. He staggers wildly about the apartment-house courtyard, its high walls allowing the merest tantalizing glimpse of sky. This is Germany, 1927. As the nation spun from the humiliation of Versailles to economic and social anarchy, and then into the toxic delirium of the Third Reich, so Franz spins. A laborer and part-time pimp who has just been released from prison after serving four years for beating a girlfriend to death, Franz has few resources...
...Wright's earliest and handsomest pieces, designed in the mid-'30s, was a "corn set" made of chromium-plated brass and consisting of a 5¼-in.-high melted-butter pitcher and salt and pepper shakers on a tray. His first popular hit was an assortment of spun aluminum accessories: vases, teapots, spaghetti sets and "sandwich humidors," all buffed to a pewter sheen. In a burst of breathless feature stories on informal entertaining and other trends, Wright was hailed as an innovator. He was catapulted to the top of the new profession of industrial design along with Norman...
...along on his expedition to the South Pole. G.I.s during World War II and the Korean War used Noxzema for shaving. Today, when skin-care products are the fastest-growing segment of the cosmetics business, Noxzema is still one of the top-selling facial creams. Noxell has also spun off such Noxzema products as an acne lotion and a shaving cream...
...diorama at the Museum of Natural History, not onstage. Yet here they are, spouting the ancient lines: "He looks as if he'd been poured into his suit and forgotten to say when." "From the collar upward he stands alone." The japes about class and custom once seemed spun of gossamer; now they appear to be composed of cobwebs. As for the champagne merriment, it seems to have been uncorked since...