Word: spun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...opera singer and never suspected that the lady was a man. (According to Liaison, Joyce Wadler's fascinating new biography of the diplomat, the opera singer was able to fold his genitals inside his body, thus giving the naked illusion of femininity.) From this International Enquirer item, Hwang spun a phantasm of multiple myopia: a man preposterously blinded by love, a European culture blinkered by imperialist prejudice in its view of the mystic East...
They are the television channels that cover graphic crime stories at all costs, and that sent news teams to cover Hurricane Emily even after it spun 1,000 miles away from Florida. One station sent two different news teams...
...Milton, Wis. native, who said he likes to run inside, but also would love to take the ball outside, spun his way past the Lions' dizzy defense all day, and led Harvard to the best team rushing performance in the Ancient Eight last weekend...
...stations and printing presses to TV Guide magazine, News Corp. found itself with $9.5 billion of high- interest debt. That burden, compounded by a worldwide economic downturn, dealt the company a $308 million loss in 1991. To pare down the debt, Murdoch sold $1.2 billion of stock and spun off such assets as the Daily Racing Form, Seventeen and New York magazine. The moves still left News Corp. with $7.5 billion in IOUs but helped it record a profit of $605.2 million, on revenues of $7.48 billion, for its latest fiscal year...
...Mariah has just spun past Mars. When she gets to Pluto, look for a duet with Michael Bolton...