Word: vanillas
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...Linda Richman would once have said, Celebrity Boxing was actually neither celebrity nor boxing. Given the matchups - Danny "Danny Partridge" Bonaduce vs. Barry "Greg Brady" Williams, Todd "Different Strokes" Bridges vs. Rob "Vanilla Ice" Van Winkle and Tonya "Kneecaps" Harding vs. Paula "Kiss It" Jones - it would better have been called "Didn't You Used To Be a Celebrity? Boxing." And the pugilism was more like flailing than boxing (plus, with 16-ounce gloves strapped to the fighters' hands and cushiony sparring helmets on, nobody was likely to emerge too bloodied) but then, nobody was tuning in for a grand...
...each second of the pair's recent existence has been indelibly pressed into Olympic lore. Thanks to breathless press coverage, we have even learned how they take their coffee (he likes a latte, she, a latte with vanilla syrup). Less known is the back story of how they found each other and made it to Salt Lake City. It begins a continent and several worlds away. Sale grew up in the western province of Alberta, strapped on her first pair of skates before her second birthday and at age 8 announced to her mother that she was Olympic material; Pelletier...
...flavor: Vanilla...
...flavor: Well, I don’t go for that stuff too much, but straight vanilla. I’m more the cookie type—I make ice cream sandwiches...
...question the idea that in life the policy should be "every man for himself." In a civil and humane society, the government should work to see that though the rich may purchase more, every citizen has certain bottom-line necessities--health insurance, child and elder care and a "plain vanilla" defined-benefit pension. It's that simple. Other countries have them, and so should we. PAMELA SHOEMAKER New York City...