Word: vanilla
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Magritte and Orson Welles, The Road Warrior and The Three Stooges. Videos are often just as frenetic on the screen as on the sound track. Directors scrape and scramble to pack in the imagery, like so many soda jerks trying to push a quart of French vanilla into a pint container. "The problem is compression," says Julian Temple, who has made some 60 videos, including a current dazzler of the Rolling Stones' Undercover of the Night. "You have to layer each shot with a lot of meaning. When you see a video the first time you should...
...evening meal, eaten on trays in the mess tent beginning at 4:30 p.m., is sociable, almost homey. The Marines call it "supper," and last Wednesday night was typical: goulash and noodles, green beans and vanilla pudding, all washed down by Kool-Aid or milk. Afterward, the troops fall into candlelit bull sessions back in their bunkers, or head over to the company "club," a shanty where they watch videotaped movies on a small television set powered by a protectively sandbagged generator. Lights...
...Madam!" Hollings finally exclaimed. "Could I please have a scoop of vanilla? If you please...
...Sure, sure, bub. Hold on to your hat," the waitress answered while scooping up Hollings's vanilla...
Finally, it was Reuben's turn. He had been waiting very patiently for quite a long while. "Can I have some vanilla, too, please?" But when Reuben received his cone, the ice cream immediately began to drip profusely all over his fingers and hands...