Word: vanilla
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...touches and consoles. These days "country " is the handiest title to cover a multitude of sounds. At hundreds of festivals across the land, blue-grass picks and twangs its way along pretty much as it has for the past 40 years. The city of Nashville still produces its vanilla-shake love ballads with comforting monotony. Down in Austin, Texas, the country-rock cantatas of Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings are as popular as ever. No single style or performance can typify all of country music. But one strain of country is something old and new called honkytonk. It is both...
...always goes to breakfast, always goes to class, and--since the beginning of my degeneration in February--always brings in the mail. He stands at my door, so as to avoid having to walk on my floor (which is always strewn with orange peels and broken glass and old vanilla wafer boxes) and throws my mail at my chest. He's not always good at it, either, which is why we've lost two phone bills and they're going to cut off our service next week if we don't pay them $76.43 in the next two days...
Graduation the June before wasn't a graduation at all. The presumptuous red H's set in vanilla ice cream, the platitudes of college president and housemaster, didn't seem much different from the presumption and platitudes of the previous four years. It was just another day (albeit the last) at Harvard...
Many gay terms for sexual styles and tastes are putdowns. Besides nellies, effeminate gay males are called twinkies, sissies or queens; they do their drinking in vanilla bars, swish joints or fluff parlors. The all-purpose term queen is used in many combinations: a drag queen wears women's clothes, and a chicken queen (or chicken hawk) prefers sex with underage boys...
...Comoro Islands, situated between Mozambique and the island republic of Malagasy, are not only one of the world's least-known places but also one of the poorest. The 290,000 people who inhabit the four islands have a per capita G.N.P. (mostly from vanilla, sisal and copra) of about $100. If France, which acquired the islands in the 19th century, did not provide an annual $35 million, or 80% of the budget, their misery would be absolute rather than conditional. Last week, after a 27-day flirtation with total freedom from France, the Comoros decided to temper independence...