Word: spun
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Metamorphosen also spun its more impressionistic sounds in the program's opening work, the world premiere of Elena Ruehr's "Shimmer." The title is hardly programmatic, since no word could better describe the texture of the piece (unless the reviewer has unconsciously fallen victim to suggestion). Though the structure of Ruehr's work was difficult to discern, its series of crests and ebbs made use of time-honored techniques of string orchestration. For instance, convincingly brass-like timbres often poured forth from the violas. Apart from an exaggerated consciousness of the piece's beats, especially in the several fugal sections...
...United States, of course, the timeless Bobbitt morals have been adapted to suit tastes of the native culture. John Wayne has spun himself a new career in the adult entertainment business. His new porno video, "John Wayne Bobbitt--Uncut," is less about female liberation than it is about the nearly unstoppable bonkability of the American male. You'd have sworn that John Wayne got an enhancement, not an amputation...
Eynon, a left-footed striker, was standing to the left of the Crusader goal when she got the ball facing the endline. Eynon spun around and punched it by the surprised goalie with her left foot to break...
Before TV cameras, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and his Cabinet spun a whirlwind of threats and possible further moves to get at the elusive terrorists--including an international campaign to cut off donations to Hamas from charity groups in the U.S. and elsewhere, and drafting all eligible Israeli youths into the police force, rather than the army, ostensibly to fight the group. "There's a political necessity for creating a lot of noise and the illusion you're doing something," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer...
...recent departure from the New York Times spun off a torrent of debate, including Marjorie Williams' less than flattering article in Vanity Fair several weeks before Quindlen's announcement. Is Anna Quindlen selling out by rejecting the gleaming apple of a possible executive editorship, or is she just exercising her own choices as a woman by opting to write novels at home, allowing her to spend more time with her three children...