Word: spike
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...third set resembled the first set at the outset. Harvard, serving first, used its superior athletic ability to repeatedly spike the ball down Dartmouth's throat...
Wobbly but still in control, Harvard closed out the set on an errant spike attempt by Dartmouth...
Turturro, (whose brother, John, starred in Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing") successfully combines scenes of homophobic rage with tender moments of bathing his weak-brained old dad. His ability to span this emotional range saves "Federal Hill" from a nearly one-sided tone of frenetic boyish energy. While Nicky and his other friends clearly demonstrate their desire to become good men, their performances never quite make the leap from edgy conversation and bravado into deep feeling...
...such highbrow language hardly captures the raw reality of Judge Ito's courtroom last week, where each day brought a new spike in the players' emotional temperatures--and further discomfited the millions of TV viewers who thought they knew what to think about O.J. Over kitchen tables, in restaurants, around office coffee machines, people debated the lawyers' opening statements, critiqued Judge Ito's style, expressed amazement over snapshots of Simpson's body offered up by the defense and photos of Simpson's socks displayed by the prosecution...
...Prime Time is every bit as confusing as the man himself. On one track, Must Be the Money, he boasts of turning library cards into credit cards, and on another, Movin', he gets in some very nasty licks against both Tiny Tim McCarver and another of his sworn enemies, Spike Lee. But there's also a nice tribute to his father and a song that asks you to "respect your woman." There's even a track called Heidy Heidy Hey, which probably has the recently deceased Mr. Calloway stirring in his grave. Prime Time, you see, can't sing...