Word: unspool
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...Kemal, the narrator, and the “real” Pamuk blur to the point of indistinguishability—all three men come to seem interchangeable with each other, as well as with any of the narrators in Pamuk’s other books. These tiny, invisible connections unspool gradually to spin out a place both intricate and familiar, the nostalgia-saturated inverse of the fast-paced modern city: turning the first few pages of the “Innocence” feels like nothing more than coming home...
...Rakim, not Fitzgerald, who first made me consider writing. Still, all that macho blathering was a weird match for me, a kid with the self-esteem of an earthworm. So every few years, I'd bemoan the state of the music, rip my Public Enemy posters from the wall, unspool all my mix tapes and swear, "Never again!" That was mostly posturing--all it took was something arch and underground, say, Operation Lockdown by Heltah Skeltah, to get me swooning...
...many, they simply killed time between the "mythology" episodes, which laid out the series' tantalizing story line about a government-alien conspiracy. Now 20th Century Fox has had the good sense to strip out the filler and serve up the mythology with no chaser. These two themed collections unspool ongoing plot threads from Seasons 1 through 5. If you don't know what "black oil"--a nefarious goo that may be an alien life form--is, you will have an engrossing time learning. If you do, you've probably already placed your order...
Professor Seinfeld has put together a syllabus for the course he's always wanted to teach, Stand-Up 101. His working definition: "Stand-up is a guy onstage talking about his life." We sit at a monitor and unspool his Mount Rushmore of comedy, starting with the man he considers the father of modern stand-up, Lenny Bruce...
...other words, if Alan Greenspan was ever planning to unspool some additional optimism on the state of the economy in his return to the Hill after last week's semi-sanguine appearance before the House Financial Services Committee last Wednesday, he'd have known by Tuesday's opening bell that he'd have been shouting into a pretty stiff wind...