Word: spun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...REMEMBER in agonizing detail a crush I had my second year of high school. After class, I would go home and release the pent-up frustration of unrequited love with my stereo. One track in particular spun over and over again on the turntable: "Bargain" by The Who. As the music blasted forth, I would listen to Roger Daltrey and pretend his golden throat was mine. In my dream, the brown-eyed girl would sit entranced while I half sang, half shouted Pete Townshend's lyrics: "I'd pay any price just to win you, Surrender my good life...
...antecedents. In the first of the 48 preludes and fugues that make up The Well-Tempered Clavier, Bach unfolded a serene meditation in the key of C over a placid, unchanging rhythmic pattern. To set the proper bardic tone for his mythological Ring of the Nibelung operatic saga, Wagner spun the entire Prelude of Das Rheingold from a single E-flat major triad, embellishing a bass note into a torrent of arpeggios to depict the primal nature of the Rhine. Ravel built Bolero around a sinuous, reiterated melody, clad in shifting orchestral colors, which only once lurches briefly away from...
...first did the triple somersault. The triple is now performed regularly, but it is still an accomplishment reserved for the very best aerialists. Yet Miguel, 17, who represents the fifth generation of a family of Mexican circus performers, was able to do the triple when he was 13. He spun so fast and flew so high that he was urged to go for four...
...fantasy from which we escape into our real life - our dream life." Herzog should know: he was one of 35,000 dreamers at the 35th Cannes Film Festival. For 13 days on the cool but sunny Côte d'Azur, fantasies of art and avarice were spun with blithe disregard for events in the waking world outside. On the façade of the town's posh Carlton Hotel, an electronic ticker tape mixed bulletins from the Malouines (Falklands) with screening schedules for the night's new films. While two movies about political prisoners -Costa-Gavras...
...Adams, 89, children's book author of many of the gee-whiz adventures in series like Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Tom Swift and the Bobbsey Twins; in Pottersville, N.J. Writing under such names as Carolyn Keene, Franklin W Dixon, Victor W. Appleton and Laura Lee Hope, Adams spun out more than 200 tales during a 52-year career. Adams was one of several writers who worked for the juvenile series' controlling corporation, the Stratemeyer Syndicate, founded by her father Edward more than 70 years...