Word: spiked
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...latter with Adaptation, from the Being John Malkovich team of Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze. Meanwhile, we shouldn't rush to judge Cage or devalue his recent work. He was never one to do the expected. He took the hard way to stardom, with quirky portrayals in orphan movies. He may now be doing something even braver: anchoring serious or silly films with the haunting loneliness and eccentric rhythms that, even as a star, he can't shake. To invest his special gravity in nice-guy roles--this may be the strange quest and triumph of Nic the Nice...
...Jesse Jackson, Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. and Bruce Shapiro (New Press; October). "This will be a must-read for anti-death penalty advocates...FORECAST: A hot political topic and high-visibility father-and-son authors guarantee media attention for this that should generate at least an initial spike in sales...
...fashioned slowdown in which things get steadily worse over a period of many months. Already, Singapore's GDP is shrinking after it grew 9% last year. The jobless ranks in Taiwan are more swollen than they've ever been in history; not coincidentally, the suicide rate has seen a spike too. Unemployment rates are also rising in Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore. Companies everywhere say the carnage will only get worse in the months to come...
...Hard to say. Thursday, we got the news that first-time unemployment claims hit their highest weekly level in nine years, and that was pretty scary. But the weekly numbers aren't too reliable, and until we see that four-week rolling average - or the monthly unemployment report - really spike, we can really start to assume that we've avoided a recession...
...America gets to claim him--as he claimed it 24 years ago, when he went to college in Illinois. Soon he was in New York City, studying film and assisting another Lee (Spike). Now 46, he still edits his films there and lives in Westchester with his wife Jane and their two children...