Word: spun
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...sacred grey cotton Harvard Department of Athletics sweats do so proudly. Naturally, those interested in capturing some DHA magic are legion. Non-athletes at Harvard are forced to procure DHAs through other means, and the intricate webs of girlfriends, family members and guys-that-lived-down-the-hall spun to capture these treasured swatches of fabric are staggering. These are their stories...
...voice bellows not from some bearded firebrand but from Sumbal, a five-year-old girl in a bubble-gum-pink smock. After her speech, delivered with a child's pure-spun rage, Sumbal encounters TIME's correspondent, an American citizen. Trembling, she hides behind her teacher's legs and tries to bury her face in the baggy folds of his salwar kameez. This is her worst nightmare: after memorizing her diatribe against blood-thirsty Americans, one of them has come stalking up the ravines after...
Many fabrications used to sell past wars to the American people are now notorious. In 1964, a Navy crew’s panicky suspicion that it had come under fire by a Vietnamese ship was within a few hours spun by President Lyndon B. Johnson into a malicious act of Communist aggression. For his lies, LBJ was rewarded with congressional authorization to escalate our fateful military adventure in Indochina. In 1990, the first President Bush employed bogus accounts of Iraqi soldiers tossing Kuwaiti newborns out of incubators to overcome the public’s unwillingness to wage war against...
Avril Lavigne’s song “Complicated” was very easily one of the most spun songs of the summer. With the constant radio play has come a very opinionated and polarized slew of fans and detractors. Is she the genuine article, worthy of our affection, or just another niche product of a corporate record label? FM found two sides to the same played-out, over-hyped coin...
Perhaps. But Dreams' cloying earnestness makes jadedness look attractive. If you weren't convinced kids were different in 1963, we see the spun-sugar Meg actually skip across a hopscotch grid on the way home to watch Bandstand. The historical references are clumsy: a son arguing with his father declares, "Kennedy says it's time for new dreams and new frontiers!" Speaking of J.F.K., the pilot begins on a snowy day in November, setting up the hackneyed loss-of-innocence climax so obviously that you half expect a TV to crackle, "And in other news, President Kennedy will be assassinated...