Word: spikeness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...have been invested in this date "going anywhere," but I wanted to be sure it wouldn't be because he didn't want it to. So I wore a very short black leather miniskirt, a tight black halter top, black hose and spike black heels. A few studs and I could have passed for a dominatrix...
Mary Boone was one of the art dealers who epitomized the overheated art market of the '80s. The spike-heeled opening night, the waiting list for collectors hoping to buy from the hottest artists--it was all part of a culture of desire that she helped bring to a high pitch. Her stable of artists was diverse, but in the public's mind Boone was the woman behind big, thumping Neo-Expressionists like Schnabel. For a time she also represented Basquiat. Today she still has a thriving business at two locations in Manhattan. And as she sees...
...think of Perowne when you approach the London town house that McEwan shares with Annalena McAfee, his second wife, an arts editor at the Guardian newspaper. Located on a neo-classical square laid out by Robert Adam, it also faces onto the British Telecom Tower, a '60s-era spike. Perowne lives in a house with the same views. And the poignant ramblings of his mother Lily, who suffers from vascular dementia--"I put sap in the clock to make it moist"--are transcribed directly from the speech of McEwan's mother Rose, using notes McEwan took on visits before...
...create a community of boutique studios open to innovation? From its inception, the MTV channel has nurtured new movie talent, showcasing short, often experimental films (music videos) by young directors like Michael Bay, Spike Jonze and David Fincher. Their success in features has made MTV, in a way, the true Sundance of mainstream Hollywood...
...Chicago? Nope. We’d laugh at you. Get some perspective. Also note that the “progressive” miscegenation narrative offered by the film is decidedly PG-13. Think Denzel Washington and Julia Roberts in The Pelican Brief with greater political pretension—not Spike...