Word: vanillaism
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Somewhere on the causeway between Miami Beach and the mainland, my brother-in-law said, "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" "Vanilla cappuccino?" I whispered. "Yes," he said. "But where?" For reasons that are unclear to me, my bro-in-law and I share a powerful affinity for those hot, disgusting, highly caffeinated beverages you can buy only from vending machines at 7-Elevens. Finding a 7-Eleven in your own neighborhood isn't exactly rocket science. But we were vacationing on alien terrain. Where, oh where, was the closest source of the Treacle of Life...
...world over wondered what exactly Kingsley was talking about. Since the couple shared a vocation, worked together frequently and seldom spent more than two weeks apart, speculation immediately turned to possible third parties. Those possible third parties--including Kidman co-stars George Clooney and Ewan McGregor and Cruise's Vanilla Sky ingenue Penelope Cruz--issued denials and ran for cover. Soon, sources close to Kidman hinted that the couple may have fought over the role of Scientology in the upbringing of their two adopted children, Isabella, 8, and Connor, 6. Cruise renounced Roman Catholicism in 1990 and has since become...
...this dance between crotch-grabbing and self-abuse? Part of the answer seems to involve deep personal issues with women. But one shouldn't underestimate the Vanilla Ice effect--the defensiveness, plain on Eminem's records, of the white rapper. Certainly Caucasians have no monopoly on Rude Boy culture--last summer the Wayans brothers out-Farrellyed the Farrelly brothers with the $157 million gross-out hit Scary Movie. And the Rock is African American and Samoan. But there's an undeniable white-boyness to much of this trend--that familiar envy, from the '50s and on back, of the roguish...
...PATENTS Melvin De Groote Method to separate crude oil from water, process that adheres chocolate to vanilla ice cream...
...wait," I thought. "She also got dumped by Brad Pitt for Jennifer Aniston." Gone were the feelings of inadequacy, and I headed out to Toscanini's for a hot vanilla (so good...