Word: spinning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Talk-show host David Letterman has had his Connecticut home broken into four times and his sports car taken for a spin by a 36-year-old woman who refers to herself as "Mrs. Letterman...
PRIME TIME LIVE (ABC, beginning Aug. 3, 10 p.m. EDT). And there's more, news junkies. In this ambitious new ABC offering, Diane Sawyer and Sam Donaldson each week will face a studio audience and the formidable task of putting a fresh spin on the news...
These days, after much of the media hype and lunacy has abated, ((I am)) left simply with a gut feeling of frustration. Had to learn the hard way the lexicon of the 80's and discover exactly what "spin" means. The truth hasn't been allowed to come to the fore either for any number of legal reasons or it wasn't lurid enough for print or airing...
Shamir tried unconvincingly to put a positive gloss on events. "These matters contain nothing new," he said of the amendments. "We did not alter one iota of the peace initiative." Yet Shamir's labored efforts at spin control could neither disguise the fact that he had sacrificed his fledgling peace plan to his own political survival nor hide the painful truth that as long as that is his primary aim, Shamir will be vulnerable to right-wing pressure...
...general-interest segment of the $15 billion book-publishing industry is on a binge. In this go- go market, which represents one-third of an industry that includes books ranging from college texts to Bibles, editors are frantically putting bets on any potential best sellers. In recent months, the spin of the wheel has made not only a construction worker but also a Yale history professor and several fresh college graduates richer than they ever could have imagined. Publishers say the bull market for manuscripts has become "hysterical," "desperate" and even "silly." Still, most of them cannot help playing...