Word: spicing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Geri Halliwell, formerly known as Ginger Spice of the 1990s Britband sensation the Spice Girls, last night joined the 2003 Miss America and a child psychiatrist at the Harvard Eating Disorders Center’s annual forum to discuss body image, eating disorders and the public gaze...
...also said that at the height of her Spice Girls slimness, she would “feel superior to bigger girls,” and that the “shady dancing and modeling” she did in her later teenage years made her realize “the power of the body—a power that could sometimes be destructive...
Halliwell, who dismissed a question from the audience which alluded to her allegedly tumultuous relationship with the other Spice Girls as a possible catalyst for her eating problems, said, “It’s so easy to blame somebody. But ultimately I realized the self-loathing driving my image issues was really just pride in reverse...
...that growing up mixed-race in the '50s made him "an oddity ... I was the darkie one." At 19, he saw Ian Holm's Richard III and realized that the stage would allow him to become anyone he wanted to be. He changed his name, paying homage to his spice-trading grandfather, whose nickname was King Clove. Before long, he had earned a place in the Royal Shakespeare Company, the troupe that helped him fall in love with drama. The stage veteran surged into film with the title role in - and Best Actor Oscar for - Gandhi. Since then, his role...
...these efforts were not pathetic enough, just last spring, the UC created an actual task force determined to spice up our love lives. The Council initially earmarked between $1,000-2,000 in funding to combat the undergraduate dating crisis. The ingenious solutions included offering discounted movie tickets and a speaker series on dating etiquette to help lessen the burden of approaching that special someone. Even our new UC vice president was in on the idea: “Dating is pretty abysmal at Harvard,” explained Michael R. Blickstead...