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...Mariah has just spun past Mars. When she gets to Pluto, look for a duet with Michael Bolton...
...people sitting on the lawn and the sides of the main theater slowly gravitated towards the stage, Perlman and Zukerman spun out dizzyingly fast and perfectly crafted notes in what seemed to be two parallel and inexorably linked sonatas rather than a duet...
They played "Push It." They spun a fully functional, non-ironic disco ball. The dance floor, smaller than a New-bury Street cafe, collected tank-topped citizens of every neighborhood in Eastern Massachusetts. You could warm up here for an evening spent strolling along Revere Beach, hunting for your perfect Kelly's-roast-beef-eating, IROC-Z driving soul mate...
...page novel The Firm, John Grisham's tort thriller about tax attorneys fronting for the Mafia, would try to streamline the story, infuse action into a narrative that is mostly lawyers chatting, give an emotional history to characters who are basically plot props and . . . please, a new ending. Grisham spun a lovely yarn -- the venality, the conspiracy, the flypaper guilt -- then let it unravel at the denouement. His climax had the hero in a Florida motel waiting for a FedEx package...
During the 1980s the Tufts researchers gradually spun away from the university and started the biotech firm Genzyme. By then the government had spent nearly $9 million -- fully 20% of all measurable research-and- development costs, according to the Office of Technology Assessment -- to aid in developing Ceredase. Genzyme disputes the figure and says the government provided only 14% of the drug's development costs. Still, when the company brought its drug to market, it set the price extraordinarily high, claiming that the process of harvesting the enzyme from human placental tissue is expensive, a claim challenged by a growing...