Word: spikeness
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...wrote pieces for TIME on silent stars Buster Keaton and Douglas Fairbanks (when their films appeared in handsome video collections), on Dorothy Dandridge (a new biography), on the comedy band leader Spike Jones (a double-CD set, with liner notes by Thomas Pynchon). One year, a splendid season of every Samuel Beckett play cued a longish essay; the next, the packaging of musical shorts from the 30s and 40s. And there was the week when all the grownups were on vacation and I assigned myself a page on a Hawaiian steel-guitar virtuoso of the 1920s. For goodness? sake...
...intelligence officials are cautiously optimistic that their prey is within reach. The U.S.'s military spokesman in Afghanistan, Lieut. Colonel Brian Hilferty, said in January he was "sure" bin Laden and Omar would be captured this year. The deployment of special-forces teams to border villages has produced a spike in intelligence from locals about possible al-Qaeda hideouts. A U.S. officer in Afghanistan says American forces are employing techniques similar to those used to capture Saddam, combing bin Laden's network of contacts and interrogating anyone with information about the people who might be giving him shelter. The drive...
...never have actors in mind when I’m writing, with the exception of John Malkovich,” he says, referring to 1999’s Spike Jonze-directed Being John Malkovich, in which a frustrated puppeteer discovers a hidden portal into the character actor’s mind...
Over the past academic year, there has been a surprising spike in criminal activity throughout our campus. A dozen sexual assaults have been reported on our streets and near our homes. While the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) has increased its efforts significantly, it is imperative that the University take an active role in helping to avoid future attacks. Instituting all-night shuttle service is not nearly enough. The Freshman Dean’s Office (FDO) and House Masters must finally unlock the doors to students who are threatened in the dead of night...
...global economy were the first to notice the coming storm in China. Albert Stahl, a London ship broker, watched the spot-market price for cargo-vessel leases rise last winter to $22,000 a day for a ship big enough to transport iron ore. He assumed the spike was due to the impending Iraq war. But through the summer the price kept increasing; shipowners even stopped giving quotes in expectation that prices would jump again the following day. Then Stahl began hearing reports of vessels the size of three football fields anchored off the Chinese coast...