Word: spikeness
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...narrative edges make it a unique experience. Nicolas Cage plays writer Charlie Kaufman (the real-life writer of the film), who becomes consumed by his assignment to adapt Susan Orlean’s meditative nonfiction novel The Orchid Thief and his own personal eccentricities. Like Kaufman and director Spike Jonze’s previous film Being John Malkovich, several plots overlap and intertwine with surprising dramatic twists, creating a frustrating, complex film that is infinitely insightful and weirdly moving. Adaptation screens...
...dollars in health-care costs. Not every patient will be able to switch, however, and it often takes more than one drug to control blood pressure. In any event, you should never decide on your own to stop taking any hypertension medication. It could lead to a dangerous spike in your blood pressure--and that's the last thing you need...
...areas the FBI has done little to change its ways. Mueller has confounded some FBI insiders by promoting and decorating officials who held key leadership positions when the bureau missed warning signs in the months leading up to Sept. 11. The FBI chief outraged congressional critics by citing Marion (Spike) Bowman--the head of the bureau's National Security Law Unit, which refused to let the Minneapolis, Minn., agents search Zacarias Moussaoui's computer and belongings in August 2001--for "exceptional performance." (For his part, Bowman says that "I don't think I did anything wrong here. In fact...
...Pakistani cab drivers and the black schoolyard studs and the Soprano wannabes in Bensonhurst, and to the Irish-American boyos of whom Monty is one. It's a swell swill of gutter poetry--written by novelist-screenwriter David Benioff and vigorously illustrated in a tabloid-surrealist style by director Spike Lee--that touches on everything New Yorkers, and Americans, love to hate about the big city...
...Harvard at the same time as binding Early Decision schools like the University of Pennsylvania. That policy change, which led many to predict Harvard would have access to top students whose Early Decision applications would previously have prevented them from applying to the College, may have factored into the spike in applications. But Fitzsimmons said that even with added flexibility in the application process, there are only so many top candidates to go around and that most who had an interest in Harvard would have applied last year as well...