Word: spike
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rushmore." Actor Don Brockett was remembered for his astonishing range--the amiable chef on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood also played a deranged inmate in The Silence of the Lambs. Quinn's favorite obit: soprano Ina Souez, who starred in operas in the '30s and then, after World War II, joined Spike Jones' bizarre musical-comedy troupe, cheerfully warbling under a hat adorned with live pigeons. "Now there's a full life," says Quinn...
...race-specific roles. For every Malcolm X, in which he starred as the slain Muslim leader, there was a Philadelphia, in which he played a homophobic lawyer who just happened to be black. He has shown a facility for Shakespearean comedy (Much Ado About Nothing), as well as for Spike Lee drama (Mo' Better Blues). In just the past four months Washington has had starring roles in three very different films: the submarine drama Crimson Tide, the high-tech thriller Virtuosity and the murder-mystery Devil in a Blue Dress, which opens this week...
...former is wary, sullen and perhaps more ambivalent about his work than he dares to admit. The latter is bustling, voluble and perhaps more sympathetic toward Strike--with everyone trying to survive in this milieu--than he cares to admit. Clockers is careful not to overexplain these figures. Director Spike Lee, who shares screenplay credit with novelist Richard Price, lets Phifer (in his first film role) and Keitel (in his umpty-umpth) find the characters, which they do with unimprovable unpredictability...
PHILIP MORRIS & R.J. REYNOLDS ABC apologizes for its charge that they "spike" smokes with nicotine...
...somebody spike the drinking water in the offices of this country's senior legislative body? No one can deny that the Senate has gone completely haywire. While the old boys in the House of Representatives have peculiarly maintained the eager-beaver attitude evoked by the Contract On America since the last election, several of our senators appear to be marching to their own bongo drums...