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Jerry Bock's instantly hummable score gives them verve, simplicity and just enough pixilation. Typical of his understated craft is Vanilla Ice Cream. After the squabblers have made peace, still without sharing their secret, the love-struck leading lady solos. She alternates between a fizzy melody about the man she sees every day and a darker, more complex one about the man she hopes she knows through letters. The song is about the choice between reality and fantasy views of, in fact, the same man. In this sensible look at love, reality makes her more confident, and happier...
...trouble is that this nameless Everydog doesn't talk, or even have many discernible expressions. That puts most of the comic burden on the characters around him, who are a dull lot. Mom and Dad (voiced by Molly Cheek and Martin Mull) have plain-vanilla marital spats, and the two kids are boring Bart-and- Lisa wannabes. The plots are thin (Family Dog goes to the zoo or befriends a homeless woman), and the dialogue, by sitcom veteran Dennis Klein (Buffalo Bill), is more garrulous than witty: "That was stealing, and stealing is bad . . . Ipso facto, Fido...
...groove-heavy beats and scatlike raps are burning up the charts from Kingston to New York to Toronto. Darrin O'Brien, who would rather be known by his ghetto moniker, Snow, is an alumnus of Toronto's housing projects and the Ontario penal system. Rap elitists who remember Vanilla Ice may doubt Snow's street credentials. But they need only listen to Snow's No. 1 pop hit, Informer, a tale about offing an undercover snitch, to know the man's music is bona fide. There's not a snowball's chance that Snow will melt like...
Meyer also changed the standard against which the company measures its performance from a conventional "vanilla portfolio" of stocks and bonds to a new system of internal benchmarks based on the estimated performance of HMC"s asset allocation schedule...
...Youth all over the world like hip-hop, rap. They're very interesting forms. There was an attempt on the part of some Black feminist critics and white male critics at the New York Times to turn the market of rap over to Vanilla Ice; it didn't work, obviously. There was a big thing about them wanting to do to rap what they're trying to do to Black male literary culture. But it's easier to do it to the literary culture because that's a weak culture without a strong support system. They were saying that...