Word: vanillas
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...craft. The tension between lyrical innovation and “respect for the culture” allows Nas to decry “a rhymebiter’s rthyme” on his debut album Illmatic, while still drawing lyrical nourishment from idols like Rakim. Whether Vanilla Ice or Black Eyed Peas, pop outsiders who appropriate rap forms without a nod to their numerous predecessors are ostracized. Though these sequential links are vital, slicing the intricate mesh of hip-hop’s connections into easy “lineages” of progressive influence and success, as a conventional...
...seek the advice of our very own female social geniuses, women’s final clubs and sororities. I need not reiterate the incident of a few months ago, in which it was revealed that the Isis club judges its punches based on their level of “vanilla-ness”. The editorial is asking women’s groups to seek help from groups based upon a social ideology that they are trying to combat: exclusion. As penniless and homeless as the sororities and women’s final clubs are reported to be, they thrive...
...Mark and Robbo's Malt Scotch Whisky blends?the Smokey Peaty One, the Rich Spicy One and the Smooth Sweeter One?are already hits with the 18-to-35-year-old set in Europe. Now American distillers like Phillips Union are hoping to crack open the U.S. market with vanilla- and cherry-flavored blends. Connoisseurs may turn up their noses, but the new Scotches are surprisingly smooth...
...boost his story's drama, and his street cred? (Have we learned nothing, nothing, from the downfall of Vanilla Ice?) Frey isn't giving an inch-or he gives an inch, but that's all. He wrote on his website: "Let the haters hate, let the doubters doubt, I stand by my book, and my life, and I won't dignify this bulls___ with any sort of further response." On Wednesday (having apparently reconsidered that last bit somewhat) he appeared on Larry King with a more nuanced position: "A memoir is a subjective retelling of events," he said...
...repetition soothes it." Thus, during the first four weeks of the plan, every meal and snack will share a common ingredient. Get ready, for example, for Cranberry Day, with cranberry-banana muffins for breakfast, a salad with cranberries for lunch, cranberry and onion turkey cutlets for dinner, and cranberry-vanilla ice cream for dessert...