Word: spun
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...been less than a week and already the results of last Tuesday's elections have been spun into the sort of black and white talk show goo that lets us all pretend that voters are predictable and politics easily analyzed. To those pundits who make their living pronouncing on trends so ephemeral only the commentators can see them, the truth is clear: This year's political theme is anti-incumbency. (I know, you thought that was last year's theme, but generalizations this useful have a way of hanging around...
According to the popular wisdom, Seinfeld is a show about "nothing." Episodes are spun out of small, everyday trials and tribulations -- looking for a parking spot, wearing a funny-looking shirt, trying not to masturbate (last season's Emmy-winning episode The Contest, in which the characters competed to be "master of your domain"). In reality, the show is more densely textured, elaborately plotted and psychologically astute than any other comedy on TV. It is, moreover, the product of two distinct but oddly congruent comic personalities: David, 46, a dour ex-stand-up comic and writer (he appeared...
Last year, for example, HSA lost nearly $170,000, according to its tax returns. Company officials say the number does not include all the profits earned at Let's Go--which was spun off at the start of fiscal 1993 and stopped filing joint returns with HSA--and reflects a national and regional economic slowdown...
...addition, despite the sizable profits ofrecent years, HSA has never contributed money toHarvard. And the company last year spun off itsmost profitable divisions--publishing andsales--into Let's Go, Inc., a separate, for-profitsubsidiary. The reason? According to companyofficials, they realized that the Let's Go travelguides were aimed primarily at the communitybeyond Harvard...
...inconsistent. In addition, he gave insufficient deference to committee chairmen like Sam Nunn and Pat Moynihan and paid dearly for the slights: Nunn has nearly shut down Clinton on gays in the military, and Moynihan last week suggested that Clinton's health- care financing scheme was spun from whole cloth...