Word: spikeness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Leopold attributed the increase in applications partly to the uncertain economic times, but she said she didn't believe the financial crisis fully accounted for the spike...
...remember during the U.S. election campaigns, Russians always brought up the fact that Obama is black, and some newspapers linked it to his abilities as a President," says Galina Kozhevnikova, deputy director of the Moscow-based SOVA Center, which monitors racially motivated crime in Russia. According to Kozhevnikova, the spike in hate crimes toward black people living in Russia at the end of last year - including one incident in December in the southern province of Volgograd where a black student from Rhode Island survived a brutal stabbing - was related to the attention that the Russian press was giving Obama...
...into a fantasy version of childhood, in the company of young boys he saw as his peers and saviors. Asked by Winfrey what he missed most in his own youth, he replied, "Slumber parties." He'd make good on that wish, bunking with kids his own emotional age. (Read "Spike Lee Remembers Michael Jackson...
...Spike Lee, Director-producer "I'll Be There" I loved him as a solo artist - I had a big Afro like he did, and I hoped that the girls would like me the way they liked him - but I have a special place in my heart for the stuff he did with the Jackson...
...previous to that? Yeah, I met him at dinners and stuff like that, but that was the most intimate time I had been with him. Can I tell you a quick story? Michael Jackson called me up and said, "Spike, I want meet you, I'm coming to New York." I said, "Well where you want to meet?" He says, "I want to come to your house." I live in Brooklyn! He wants to come to my house! So, Michael Jackson came to my house in Brooklyn, New York - this was when I was living in Fort Greene...