Word: bonbon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...solo record in five years. Among other things, the new album had to meet and match his 1982 Thriller, which sold an unprecedented 38.5 million copies around the world and made him into a pop-culture phenomenon, part dancing phantom and part homeboy Kewpie. Bad's first single, a bonbon called I Just Can't Stop Loving You, was a perfect love ballad for parlous times: sexy but hygienic, passionate but never lustful. Radio programmers grumbled at Epic's choice of a low-profile make-out tune for the album's first single. None of this...
...packaged ordinary dog and cat biscuits in sampler boxes covered with silver foil to resemble assortments of exquisite chocolates. The names for the products: Dogiva and Cativa. Grey sent samples last spring to such departent-store chains as Lord & Taylor and Saks Fifth Avenue, which quickly decided that the bonbon biscuits would make excellent Christmas gifts at about $10 a box. Grey, a former Playboy bunny and wife of a Los Angeles lawyer, put up her Mercedes-Benz 4505L as collateral for a $25,000 bank loan to build her fledgling business. Since starting full-scale production early last fall...
...offer has been repeated. Then we signed the Simla Agreement [a 1972 accord that calls for the two countries to negotiate their differences], but they did not want the words no war used. Now suddenly, along with the purchase of the F16, President Zia puts in this little bonbon about a no-war pact. I have suggested that we have a treaty of cooperation, friendship and peace, in which a no-war declaration would, of course, be included. And I have announced publicly that pact or no pact, India will not attack...