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Don't move the cups, I don't want anybody to see where the spike is, but give the plinths an extra mix up, and then line them up.
Do you think the spike is under your left or your right hand?
Back in my lab, we'd seen the benefits of giving spike when people felt a real sense of connection with those they were helping and could easily envision the difference they were making in those individuals' lives.
Does the screaming horse embody the threat of Franco’s military nationalism; or does the spike running through its body convey its victimhood?
But could they have predicted this unprecedented spike less than halfway through the Earth's life?
And this may explain, for example, the spike of entrepreneurship you see all throughout Asia today.
What's new is that recently, there's been a spike in families, children and families, showing up at checkpoints and presenting themselves to seek asylum.
The tiny spike on the left to the center is actually the forefather of wheat.
Every time we did a house-to-house search, we had a spike in the number of reports of smallpox.
Here's an example: A company I'm engaged with has found a specific piece of the H spike of flu that sparks the immune system.
There have been large popular protests in over 40 African countries since 2005, and if you look, you'll recognize that in 2011, the year of the so-called Arab Spring, was actually the spike of this broader wave.
For those of us from outside of Africa, we're familiar with parts of this story: a massive spike in inequality, the product of a decline in good jobs for good wages that were once considered the hallmark of an advanced society; the capture of our political parties by elites accompanied by the hollowing out of civil society that once provided a voice to ordinary people; that sinking feeling that no matter what you do, external factors related to the global economy can disrupt our lives for the worse.
We tinkered with gamification elements like points, badges and avatars, and we'd see a temporary spike in engagement but things would go back to normal as soon as the novelty wore off.
Why does an otherwise empty corridor have a deadly spike sticking out of the wall?
He eventually kills the creature by, get this, throwing a solid gold 24 inch spike, not very sharp, about twenty feet, hard enough to penetrate the chest.
Dialogue that is tinny and tone deaf the way Spike sometimes (not always) is when writing "certain" characters.
Cute idea to have Dionne Warwick do the song vocals for this movie-adaptation of Jacqueline Susann's bestselling book (a la "Valley Of The Dolls")...although it's really too bad this sudser doesn't have Patty Duke's Neely O'Hara to spike the story.
Soon after Skip is killed when he is impaled on a spike at the bottom of a pit.
The revenge climax is really funny as Daimajin squashes guys under his feet and crushes guys with his fist and even drives a spike though a man's heart.
Oh, one last thing, I missed one scene in this movie, we never see a Critter shoot a spike from its back, maybe these puppets didn't have that feature, but I was very disappointed not seeing that (in Critters 3 we see a lot of spike shooting, which was the only good thing I liked about that movie).
ODYSSEY (like SUNSHINE) also dealt with astronaut shortcomings (Zoe's failed EVA, Ivan's over exertions on Venus, the spats with mission control) and the sheer danger of exploring new planets with unfamiliar dangers (the fatal radiation spike on Mars).
Spike blew this one big time.
Our leading man, Heaton, definitely loves Spike.
Director Adam Marcus, working from a clever script by Dean Lorey and Jay Huguely, relates the compelling story at a constant snappy pace, maintains a mean, brutal tone throughout, delivers plenty of nasty gore (a young lady getting impaled on a tent spike while doing just what you think with her boyfriend rates as the definite splatter highlight), further tarts things up with a welcome sense of self-mocking black humor, offers a generous sprinkling of tasty female nudity, stages the murder set pieces with rip-roaring brio (the delightfully outrageous diner massacre sequence in particular seriously smokes), and really goes for broke with a gloriously wild ending which comes complete with one doozy of a sequel set-up punchline.
as i viewed spike lee's "she hate me" upon its video release i kept wondering what audience lee was targeting for the film.
OK, so spike doesn't like the prez.what
earth to spike :these things don't happen.
You know the basic story, Alice (A View to a Kill's Fiona Fullerton) falls asleep, and dreams chasing the White Rabbit (Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em's Michael Crawford) into the bizarre (more son in this version) world of Wonderland, meeting a variety of weird and "wonderful" characters, such as the Dormouse (Dudley Moore), The Caterpillar (Sir Ralph Richardson), Tweedledee (Frank Cox) and Tweedledum (Freddie Cox), the Cheshire Cat (Roy Kinnear), the Mock Turtle (Michael Hordern), the Mad Hatter (Robert Helpmann) and March Hare (Peter Sellers), the Gryphon (Spike Milligan), and Queen (Flora Robson) and King (Dennis Price) of Hearts.
First, Let me just say I love spike lee.
I mean what happen spike?
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