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...pimp. As the cowardly Lord High Executioner, Ross Lehman bawdily woos Devine to save his own neck while sporting a getup and manner reminiscent of Eddie Cantor. Despite first-act dances that look too much alike and a disappointment from Ben Wright, who is winsome as the vanilla hero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: Sushi and Soul | 6/20/1994 | See Source »

Music: Hammer and Vanilla Ice are back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazine Contents Page | 3/28/1994 | See Source »

...have to turn the volume knob way up to discover the way in which this, or any other Meadows song, is built, from the words onward, and what makes it interesting. Much more so than could ever be true of any louder type of pop, the Sugargliders' songs become vanilla-flavored background music whenever you can't pay enough attention to them, whether that's because you're listening while writing a paper, or because your speakers turn all tones to tin. Listen loud, however--especially to the long last two tracks, "90 Days of Moths and Rust...

Author: By Steve L. Burt, | Title: Two Brothers from the Southern Hemisphere | 3/3/1994 | See Source »

Customers can choose between chocolate and vanilla layer cakes in a variety of sizes. Feldman then decorates the cakes with molded chocolate genitalia or with iced pictures of various designs...

Author: By Sarah E. Scrogin, | Title: Titillating Sweets | 12/11/1993 | See Source »

Rappers aren't the first pop stars to cross from outlaw poses to real bloodletting. Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols stabbed his girlfriend to death. Squeaky Claudine Longet, a vanilla songstress of the '60s and '70s, shot her boyfriend, a killing that she called accidental and a jury called criminally negligent homicide. But for the most part singers, even the ones who like to pal with mobsters, have been content to leave gunplay to the pros. Not gangsta rappers. In a world where it can seem as if everybody's "strapped" -- meaning armed -- the rapper Spice 1 bragged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shootin' Up the Charts | 11/15/1993 | See Source »

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