Word: spicing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lifting personal taste from past decades bears built-in advantages. Quality may well be a function of time. From Salieri to the Spice Girls, time has a natural way of filtering out the fleeting, ensuring that only the worthwhile endures. And in purely fiscal terms, it pays to have classic taste: There's no need to revamp your CD or video collection when all your favorite musicians and actors have been dead for decades. Just like wearing black, your style's always in style if it works every season...
...lifting personal taste from past decades bears built-in advantages. Quality may well be a function of time. From Salieri to the Spice Girls, time has a natural way of filtering out the fleeting, ensuring that only the worthwhile endures. And in purely fiscal terms, it pays to have classic taste: There's no need to revamp your CD or video collection when all your favorite musicians and actors have been dead for decades. Just like wearing black, your style's always in style if it works every season...
...eventually negotiated a more lucrative deal with LaFace. The issue now is, Can TLC win back its fans? With the success of such packaged pop acts as the Spice Girls, LaFace has high hopes for Fan Mail. Thomas, for her part, thinks the Spice Girls have copied some of TLC's style. "I've never been a Spice Girl fan," says Thomas. "I'm not like down on them; there's enough room for everybody. But I have to say that one of the girls, I think it's Scary Spice, bit off of us. It's cool though...
Worried that your kids are blowing their allowance on video games or Spice Girls CDs? A new website will let them shop in cyberspace while you monitor their spending habits. At icanbuy.com which launches next week, overanxious parents will be able to use a credit card to set up online debit accounts for their children, who get fixed weekly or monthly withdrawals and a list of acceptable shopping sites. Parents can then watch their hard-earned money evaporate in real time...
Wyclef Jean would have been a refreshing bit of attitude to spice things up around campus. The Indigo Girls were a shot in the dark--you either can't live with them or you can't live without them, and there is no in-between. Practically everyone would have loved seeing the Dave Mathews Band (DMB) perform live at this year's Springfest. But now that the Undergraduate Council has chosen the Violent Femmes, the only question on most peoples' minds is, "What they are going to play after Blister...