Word: spun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people overhearing him would suspect it, but those barely audible hums are the stuff dream musicals are made of. Out of them, Lloyd Webber, 39, has spun a worldwide empire unmatched in the history of musical theater. With one exception, the ill-starred Jeeves of 1975, Lloyd Webber has scored an unbroken string of triumphs over the past 15 years. His most financially successful show, Cats, has had 19 productions in cities ranging from Budapest to Tokyo to Sydney to Stockholm; eleven of them are still running. Cats has racked up total box-office receipts of more than $425 million...
...Strala, Scot Laughton and Tom Deacon have created an impossibly pretty, thoroughly thought-out floor lamp. It has steel tubes finished in black epoxy; the conical shade is spun aluminum; the green spherical on-off dimmer switch is patinated brass. The result is a lamp that alludes serenely to light -- the moon and the sun -- without fuss or frill...
Intimations of a stalemate would provide a window for a last-minute candidacy by Cuomo, Bradley or Nunn -- either by entering a couple of late primaries or by being available when the preconvention brokering begins. Such a confection is still mostly spun sugar, but the re-entry of Hart is certain to keep speculation alive for months...
...Stardom When? The World According to Garp domesticated John Irving's novel and neutered Williams' wild talent. The Survivors set him up as the butt of a gun-crazy satire. Moscow on the Hudson gave him a Russian accent, at least, but too often the movie went soft, like spun-sugar quicksand. In The Best of Times, Williams went Chaplinesque -- Geraldine, alas, not Charlie -- as a weak geek trying to validate youthful dreams of football glory. And Club Paradise cast him as the ringmaster of a clown caravan. No fair: other guys got to be funny. And not funny: Popeye...
...lights. But the magic lingered. On the other side of the theater, a little girl pranced around under the area created by an arch. She twirled three times, calling to her mother, "Watch me, watch me." Her blond hair flopped as she bounced up in a mock pirouette. She spun again, playing to her now growing audience. She couldn't have been more than four, but she had fallen under the spell...