Word: spikeness
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...unfortunate amount of what you are about to read is true. It used to be a lot of fun to interview Spike Jonze because he would just make up stuff, but this time he doesn't utter a single lie for me. In the past he has pretended to be his own assistant, canceling an interview with a reporter over and over again; he has acted like a Corvette-driving loudmouth for the BBC; he has staged a fight in a fast-food restaurant for Spin magazine; he has refused to admit he was the intentionally bad choreographer...
Meyer posits that Harken’s stock price rose following a surge in the natural gas price, which rose nearly 60 percent in the same time as the stock spike...
Speaking of tales of adventuresome little boys: Not only did little-known author Yann Martel, below, win Britain's prestigious Man Booker Prize for fiction, but he is enjoying the good fortune of being embroiled in a literary feud, which should spike book sales even higher. Martel, a Canadian, won the Booker award for Life of Pi, the story of a shipwrecked boy who shares a lifeboat with a tiger. The book was released in the U.S. in June and ranks No. 23 on this week's New York Times best-seller list. In the Author's Note, Martel acknowledges...
...production.” There are serious risks, moreover, that a war could lead to the devastation of many petroleum-rich fields, or that Hussein could torch his own reserves before he is conquered. At the very least, a pre-emptive U.S.-U.K. assault might cause a sharp spike in oil prices. It seems curious to argue, then, that Bush’s Iraq policy is compelled solely by the lure of petrodollars...
...shame; now shaves his head to become a priest of mad love. Uniformed in Lycra for the Atrocity Olympics, he pursues the tag team of Lily and her pretty social-worker friend with the majestically jerky movements of a Ray Harryhausen monster. Finally he assaults them in a spike-in-the-eye, scalding-iron-to-the-scalp, buzzsaw-barbered fight to the death and beyond...