Word: spun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the wealth of contenders, the sighs of unrequited love are likely to linger, especially among Democrats. Dreamy scenarios will be spun about luring one of the reluctant warriors into the fray, though it is already too late for a new entry to organize for the early primaries. Those could of course transform one or two of the active dwarfs into giants. But if that does not happen, the murmurs about Nunn or Cuomo or Bradley sweeping in and brokering their way to victory could start up anew...
...also left behind a quantity of unresolved questions, such as its degree of aesthetic success and its relation to American abstract expressionism, that are scarcely broached in the catalog. Given the scope of its subject, "Berlinart" is only a sketch. One can imagine half a dozen more focused shows spun off from it. But it is certainly worth seeing for its own sake...
Power on! The craft it spun...
...began on the Fourth of July weekend up at Camp David with hours of reminiscing about Fred Astaire, a Reagan friend who had died two weeks before. A collection of Astaire's old movies was Nancy Reagan's birthday present to herself. The first couple were spun again from nasty reality through the golden extravaganzas of Hollywood with Swingtime and Funny Face...
Some 100,000 joined in the two-mile march, including phalanxes of students carrying pictures of Lee on forests of poles, youths bearing red-black-and- yellow banners, and a group of funeral dancers, who gracefully spun to the sounds of drums and cymbals. After reaching the city hall, the crowd sang patriotic songs, and a hearse departed for Kwangju, Lee's hometown 200 miles away...