Word: spikeness
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...made, this is how it works.'" His stubbornness has paid off. Kaufman has a say in casting and editing decisions on the movies he owns and is even welcomed on the set, where the screenwriter is usually regarded like a nun in a brothel. And he gets repeat business. Spike Jonze, who directed Malkovich, also directed Adaptation, and Kaufman is working on another movie with Michel Gondry, the director of Human Nature...
What is clear is the mess in Caracas is going to exacerbate the volatility in oil prices already set in motion by unrest in the Middle East. In the short term, it may even lead to a spike. Venezuela, the third largest exporter of oil to the U.S., emerged under Chavez as an oil hard-liner. The left-wing former paratrooper cozied up to radical petroleum producers like Iraq and Libya. He also criticized U.S. military action in Afghanistan and pushed for higher prices in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. To further that strategy, Chavez had cut back Venezuelan...
...your friends in the Middle East." In e-mails and Internet chat rooms, informal networks organize boycotts of American products, from Hollywood films to fast food. There is no sign that Arab producers will use the "oil weapon" and follow Saddam Hussein's decision to halt petroleum production to spike up world prices. Nonetheless, Arab leaders - especially those with close links to the U.S. or relations with Israel - have been quick to react, lest the anger turn to domestic unrest. In Egypt, after days of protesters chanting "Where is the Egyptian army?" the government cut off most contacts with Israel...
...Georgetown's Kilcarr. Packaged like that, the antidrinking message has some bite. But for much of the past decade, many colleges have aimed their prevention campaigns exclusively at men. One favorite strategy has been to hang antidrinking posters over urinals. Indeed, one of the most convincing explanations for the spike in women's reckless drinking is that many women have simply shrugged off the negative effects of drinking as a guy's problem...
...Denzel Washington didn't get a meaty leading-man romantic role until Spike Lee wrote one for him for his movie "Mo' Better Blues." Lee provided Washington with another plum role when he cast him as the lead in "Malcolm X." Another one of Washington's best roles came in "Mississippi Masala," a movie directed by an Indian director, Mira Nair. "Training Day" was directed by a black filmmaker, Antoine Fuqua...