1.   For campaign strategists, this was tantamount to spinning straw into gold.

2.   Spin the straw by placing it between the palms of your hands, rubbing them back and forth.

3.   But rice farmers say they have found an industrial ally that can spin rice straw into fuel.

4.   Grooming an outsider for royalty, even one reared with privilege as Diana was, is like trying to spin straw into gold.

5.   She was beginning to spin autobiographical straw into musical gold.

6.   Straw is spun into gold.

7.   The smarter traders, like Sadiq, have squirreled away their opium and now have the look of men watching straw spun into gold.

8.   The upshot, an exuberant display of film-student ingenuity, is a classic example of how to spin straw into gold.

9.   Then we will spin straw into gold and make elephants fly.

10.   Which is fine for those of us who want a Fairy GodMartha to teach us to spin the straw of housework into gold.