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...SPINNING IS JUST A EUPHEMISM FOR LYING Ex?Clinton spokesman Mike McCurry once said the job of a press secretary was "telling the truth slowly." It's a lovely phrase, Mike, but untrue. Spinning is selling a version of events that you want others to believe rather than the version that you know to be true. In my book, that's lying. It's telling a journalist that, no, that incredibly lame answer the candidate gave in the debate about Social Security - to which you privately said to yourself, "Where the hell did that come from?" - was exactly what...
With this last chance to shine as a collegiate hockey player, Jonas hopes to guide the Crimson to home-ice advantage during the postseason and playoff success. Harvard fans can rest their faith in this version of "Oli the Goalie" to lead them to triumph this season
Riding the line between Bondian cool and Powers-like self-ridicule, Charlie's Angels turns out to be a less-than-great idea. Constantly amusing but rarely a whole lot more. This is not to say that the movie version is not worthy of any praise- it's worth seeing just for moments like the one when Dylan (Barrymore), seducing a chaffer, licks the steering wheel of his Rolls Royce. But high points like that one were few are far between...
...bridge needs something," and we would whip up vocal harmonies or horn lines on the spot. We plucked out banjo parts on three or four songs, though we kept only one sample. The beloved glockenspiel was a spur of the moment decision, which proved difficult, as the studio's version of the instrument was a few blocks short of a glock (the thing looked like the grin of an unlucky hockey player). This improvising was exciting and nerve-wracking. It was creative energy in demand. There wasn't much time to "think of something else...
...overwhelming message of the film is the insight it brings to the Republican version of Carville's War Room - the seething research room at RNC headquarters in D.C. where GOP head of research Barbara Comstock and her deputy, Tim Griffin, ply a rough trade...