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These little lives, spun out in a time and place far distant from us, would be easy to ignore. But they are all vividly played, and Bille August's gifts for austere, striking imagery and for the short, perfectly shaped scene impart to this film an epic richness, range and energy...
Playing another radio host, Robin Williams spun this voluptuous sort of word web for maybe 15 minutes in Good Morning, Vietnam and won an Oscar nomination. What does Bogosian deserve? For most of this engrossing, infuriating movie, he sits in a radio studio and just talks, a shaman sparking his listeners' minds around the communal campfire. It is a spellbinding turn...
...process soon spun out of control. Because Bush had kept everything to himself, no one had thought of how to present Quayle to the press. Expecting the choice to be Dole, Bush's senior staff enlisted the veteran Reagan adviser Stu Spencer to keep Dole under control. But Spencer proved too domineering for Quayle. He called him Danny and treated him like a college freshman. At Quayle's first press conference, the Bush staff was relieved at his ability to handle the issue of Paula Parkinson, the onetime Playboy model who very briefly shared a Florida vacation house with Quayle...
College campuses are, at their best, a forum where students can actively debate and act upon ideas that are often not so well tolerated in the world after graduation. When students are spun out into the real world, hopefully they will carry with them lessons they have learned about living with students from a variety of backgrounds, with a variety of concerns...
Defining Oakland as the team that beat the Red Sox would be a trifle meager. After a 104-wins season, the A's squashed Boston in four straight and spun even Wade Boggs when they felt like it. It would please them to be likened to those pitching-heavy A's teams that strung triple titles in the '70s, though they are commonly thought of, and occasionally even think of themselves, in terms of a single Bunyanesque figure in rightfield. After Oakland scored ten runs against the Red Sox in Game 3, first baseman Mark McGwire added for shuddering emphasis...