Word: vanillaism
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Cannons boomed as heads of state entered Mulungushi Hall on the opening day. Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, who pioneered nonaligned summitry with a 1961 conference in Belgrade, was there, resplendent in a vanilla-white suit. But Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, impresario of the Cairo summit of 1964, was busy at home, and his absence seemed to underscore the fact that the nonaligned countries no longer wield the influence they once did when the U.S. and Soviet Union assiduously wooed uncommitted nations...
Still, despite its G-rated upbeatness, Darling Lili leaves an ineradicable aura of melancholia. A major talent is still settling for that vanilla species, the common, overproduced, unclerinspired feature (Cinema vulgaris). ∙Stefan Kanfer
...WHILE I fizzle a black and white soda (nothing is really black and white . . . ). There's a new product on the market: flavored douches-just great, except they haven't worked up such a variety as Brigham's offers: coffee, chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, raspberry, pineapple, mint hot fudge, Jesus can you imagine hot fudge? Yes, I am playing a game. I will graduate from candy-pink to black and then, some picture-frame day, to white. Like Hester, I will take off my hair net, let my hair hang down. Even a waitress, even everyone of us plays a game...
...What is it? "A pasteurized blend of water, hydrogenated vegetable oil, sugar, starch, sodium-phosphate, derivatives of mono-and diglycerides, sodium caseinate, polyoxyethylene (20), sorbitan tristearate. salt, cellulose gum, calcium chloride, vanilla and artificial flavor. Charged with nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide." It goes well with pumpkin pie. Answer: a dessert topping. Makes you wonder, doesn...
...Fonda is a loser by every Hollywood definition. He is not only known as Henry's son but as Jane's brother. At 20, he was admittedly "paranoic"; at 24, he escaped the Army when his draft board found him too unstable for military service. His vanilla screen-acting style was best expressed in such films as Tammy and the Doctor. Offscreen, Fonda began a new vocation-as an alcoholic who ended at least one motorcycle ride in a Hollywood hospital. When he was discharged, he gave up vodka and took up marijuana. "That changed my whole mind...