Word: icing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...harsh and fickle world of teen chic, kings are crowned and deposed every fifteen minutes. MC Hammer's shiny balloon pants soon popped and Vanilla Ice thawed from chill to slush in a matter of days. The New Kids on the Block lasted only as long it took to learn Jordan-Joe-Donnie-Jon-Danny's names. "I stopped having any real idols post-NKOTB," says Maureen P. Murphy '01. "I had all the buttons and the sheets and the sweatshirts. I was pretty fanatic about them, but I got a little of sick of it after a while...
...have nowhere to go but endlessly around the earth. True, until a few years ago, it could have been argued that a moon base was impractical and Mars exploration even more so. But we have recently discovered ice on the moon, which makes the provision of water and (from water) fuel a real possibility. Similarly, new ideas have been advanced for using Mars' water and pre-positioned fuel stores to reduce radically the loads human travelers would have to haul there...
Rather, Pollock became an exemplar of risk and openness. It wasn't just that, as de Kooning said, he "broke the ice" and forced American art onto an international stage, where it had never had a place before. It was that the freedom implied in his work challenged and provoked other artists to claim an equal freedom in theirs--not only in painting but also in sculpture, performance art, dance and music...
Rapper Vanilla Ice is touring with his new thrash-metal album, Swallow This...
...ripped away from me at the same time it was given to me, so I never had time to enjoy it. I worked too hard at this to end up cheesed out like I did. I sold myself out. I take the blame for the whole Vanilla Ice image. I can actually look back on it and say, "That sucks." That's why I've got a song on my record called...