1.   Cars that balance on large spikes, drive along ribbons of paint and are assembled in space next to men on floating couches?

2.   Here, too, we find the bottlebrushes, those species of Hedychium with large spikes of smaller, spidery flowers in various colors.

3.   The bulbs on the walls are sprouting from large black spikes that had attached the light panels to the walls.

4.   There are a lot of close-ups of human body parts being pierced by large spikes.

5.   But it warned of dangers from sudden large shifts in capital flows, and recommended that policy cooperation among APEC nations could help deal with such large spikes.

6.   Large spending spikes at the CIA typically represent a major ramping up of covert operations or, occasionally, a new satellite program, experts said.

7.   The system has geared up for a large spike in the number of customers it normally would serve on any given day by adding trains.