Word: spike
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...panel will include Debra Robinson, spike Lee, Warrington Hudlin, and Reginald Hudlin...
...resumed building the upper monument three years later. But the new marble was slightly different in wearing quality, and a 26-ft. band was fixed in place before engineers rematched the stone. That band is noticeable today. In December 1884, a 100-oz. aluminum cap was placed on the spike-shaped peak. Then on a wintry Saturday morning in February, the dapper President Chester Arthur, according to a contemporary account, "laid his silk hat at his side, slowly removed his heavy doeskin gloves and deposited them in it, held his eyeglasses on his nose" and read the official dedication. Mathew...
University of Massachusetts freshman Jolie DeTauw drove the ball into the net late in the second half of today's NCAA quarterfinals, giving the Minutemen a 1-0 victory and nailing a spike into the hearts of the Crimson booters...
...mauve luminescence that persvades the earth in The Sower, helping suggest that this dark creature fecundating the soil under the citron disk of the declining sun is some kind of local deity, an agrestic harvest god. One apple tree will evoke the Japanese roots of Van Gogh's spike line; another will suggest how Piet Mondrian's apple trees (and with them, his early sense of grids and twinkling interstices) relate to Van Gogh; a third, resembling the veined canopy of a Tiffany lamp, may recall what the decorative arts of 1900 owed to the cloisonism (decorative "inlaying...
...abobble and then akimbo (see box). Decker, meanwhile, could not have been flipped so unexpectedly if someone in the infield had stuck out a cane. Budd's left leg had angled out so oddly that she could not have done it voluntarily, much less intentionally. Bleeding from a spike hole in her left ankle, where Decker's foot had hit her, cowering from the booing, Budd dropped back to seventh...