Word: spiking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Spike Owen buried the Yankees with his single in '88. Yaz walked around Fenway one last time in '83. Jim Rice got a standing ovation that day. The Can went crazy...
...work in government, jam it," Moynahan said in an anti-Bush administration statement he distributed. "If in the military, you may be in a position to spike the weapons systems. If you're in media or if you're an electronics whiz, you might break into a boring Bush speech with a jest, or loudly repeat BO-BO-BO, or insert a blinking image of a gunman shooting down a child. What an imaginative computer hacker might contrive boggles the mind...
...reserve that talk hosts are supposed to maintain. Impulsive, sometimes off-color remarks frequently slip out. When actress Sally Kirkland told Hall she thought he was wonderful, he replied, "I can tell -- your nipples are hard." (Even Hall admits that one crossed the line.) An interview with filmmaker Spike Lee last June turned into a testy debate over remarks Lee had made criticizing Eddie Murphy for not helping blacks get more top jobs in Hollywood. "It takes time," said Hall, springing to his friend's defense. "And the change doesn't occur any quicker if you go to the Caucasian...
...addition to his tiff with Spike Lee, Hall has been embroiled in a feud with Willis Edwards, president of the Beverly Hills-Hollywood chapter of the N.A.A.C.P. When Hall's show began, Edwards complained publicly about the scarcity of blacks in key behind-the-scenes positions. (Hall's producer and director, as well as the vice president of his production company, are all white women.) According to Hall, after making the statements Edwards asked for a $40,000 contribution to his organization, a request that Hall told a reporter "sounds like extortion to me." Edwards denied asking for money...
Quote of the Week: "If I win, I'm going to wallpaper my room with a picture of the final position, and then I'm going to spike my king."--Issa Youssef of the Harvard chess team, before playing world champion Gary Kasparov. But don't worry about Youssef getting caught for violating Harvard room decoration regulations or being penalized five yards for "excessive celebrating." She was one of eight Kasparov victims in a simultaneous two-hour match Saturday...