Word: spun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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STAGING THIS hyper-intellectual verse play is a risky venture as best in these postlapsarian times. Awash in his hard-won Catholic faith, T.S. Eliot spun Murder in the Cathedral in 1935 out of the stuff of the ritual he was preoccupied with and the metaphysical poetry he esteemed. Since then, its readers have appreciated its poetic merit, but its audiences have sat uncomfortably as paradox and conceit flew by, just out of their grasp...
...lick their wounds. That suggested early man could have protected himself on the savanna by building thorn-branch shelters. But could he survive long sieges? To find out, Kortlandt attached branches to a remote-controlled motor on a framework over chunks of meat. When lions approached, the branches spun as they might had they been brandished by man. The lions darted away...
Movie ideas are spun into books and then into "bovies...
...taken a tour of a wax museum, where real people no longer lived. Someone took my arm and led me toward the dance floor. "Alexis' sister?" he asked, explaining, "this is how we do it here." He jerked his head back like an electrified man; grinned and spun around, watching me as I danced ignoring him. I felt self-conscious, and thought I saw people staring at me. After "Lola" and "White Rabbit" played, we joined Alexis, Phillippa, and the others at the table...
...roulette wheels spun and players began placing their bets at the lakeside Annecy casino in southeastern France, a plainclothes police inspector tapped the casino director on the shoulder. "A message has come from Paris, monsieur," he said. "Your establishment must close within two hours." Before the night was over, France's gambling police had arrested 14 croupiers and charged them with stealing $700,000 from the casino in the past year...