Word: spice
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...winners were nothing extraordinary, just bland establishments with nice names. Having lived in this town for a good part of my life, I felt that everything still oozed with a conventional Midwestern taste. There was some effort to spice up the restaurant list with categories like "Best Mexican Food." I thought, whatever, as if that stuff is actually authentic in Topeka...
...POSH SPICE Fiance's dumb foul costs England World Cup game vs. Argies. Will she dump...
...classic soul of the '60s and '70s with a healthy appetite for '90s sonic experimentation and boundary crossing. Neo-soul artists tend to create music that's a good deal more real, a good deal more edgy than the packaged pop of, say, teen-oriented groups like the Spice Girls and Cleopatra. And they tend to write lyrics that are more oblique and yet more socially and emotionally relevant than those of gangsta rappers...
...hoping the Spice Girls are history. Well, alas, they are. The bustier-busting sloganeering they purveyed is the touchstone for much of what passes for commercial feminism nowadays, especially the kind marketed to the demographic group the Spices are proudly empowering: preteen and teenage girls. Or "grrrls," as that tiresome battle growl goes. Is this the future of feminism...
...third? A reliable and certainly related topic, "sex. Rounding out the top five were the Spice Girls and "astrology -- and the little ladies didn't stop there. Coming in at No. 6 was sassy, IMF-bashing Malaysian prime minister Mahathir, whose shirtless pose on the cover of Foreign Affairs magazine last month set hearts aflutter the world over. No. 7 was horoscope; No. 8, Microsoft (indicating that Bill Gates's new PR campaign may be having unexpected effects); No. 9 was Malaysia, and at No. 10, Time Warner's very own Teen People...