Word: spike
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Spike and Mike's Festival of Animation...
...only down-side to "Spike and Mike's Festival of Animation" is that one leaves wishing that life itself were this hilarious and absurd, not to mention this seamlessly constructed, this Iyrical or simply this kaleidosopically varied...
...roam the petites section, that dreaded place in every department store where all the little old ladies and their tacky floral handbags hang out. But never fear, the stiletto heel is here. Although it doesn't save me from shopping alongside gray hair and cellulite, the glorious four-inch spike does countless other wonders for the petite...at the price of much pain (hey, a short girl's gotta do what a short girl's gotta...
John Henry is the quintessential railroad builder. We first see him competing against a spike-driving machine. Standing on a rock above the crowd, he laughs confidently in the face of their disbelief at his prowess. Thankfully, Henry, as one of the few black popular legends, is neither a politically correct icon nor a cardboard character, drained of his ethnicity. He is one of the group, yet with his own story. When Henry talks with Daniel about father-son relationships, he speaks wistfully of his own father, sold downriver because he was a slave...
...Jordan Night at the new United Center on Nov. 1, he told the crowd, "Hopefully, that number [23] going up will put thoughts that I'm coming back to rest. There's a new team, a new building, and I'm playing baseball." He filmed a Nike commercial with Spike Lee, featuring Stan Musial, Willie Mays, Ken Griffey Jr. and Bill Buckner, all of whom watch Jordan play and comment, "But he's trying...