Word: innuendo
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Britney Spears (whom Beyonce replaced in January as Pepsi pitchwoman) winkingly kept the world up-to-date on her development with I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman. Beyonce doesn't do innuendo, or at least she doesn't do innuendo that's quite so obvious. Her appeal lies in her ability to be both pious and real; as a devout Methodist who has been linked to Jay-Z (she denies they're anything more than friends), she is too cool not to talk about sex, but she's also too serious to wink about it. Dangerously...
...scattered treasures (she is trained in classical Japanese vocal techniques) and trash (she is also the world's most infamous banshee). Ono has long needed a curator, and in 2001 she gave a New Jersey duo called Orange Factory approval to go through her material and remix the 1970 innuendo-filled Open Your Box. "I'm a very difficult person," says Ono, "but when I heard it, I just thought it was beautiful. I cried...
...myriad spawn populated the screen with horny men in need of domesticating and bouncy career gals who wore chastity belts beneath their Jean Louis frocks. At a time when Hollywood could still only hint at promiscuity, these movies sublimated their animal urges in the classic farce techniques of innuendo and mistaken identity. If their winks were as subtle as the drop of an anvil, and if their nudges could break a rib, they nonetheless kept America smiling, or smirking, until the sexual revolution exploded later...
...press conference as if to add gravity to his words, delivered with a lisp in colloquial Arabic peppered with street slang, rather than in eloquent classical Arabic more common among Shiite scholars and clerics. And, again unlike other Shiite leaders, he spoke bluntly and aggressively, without vague hints and innuendo. Muqtada professes no gratitude to the U.S. for ridding Iraq of Saddam Hussein. He gives all the thanks...
...Reading period is coming up fast and Gossip Guy is ready. Study-guide lies, review-session rumors and drunken afternoon innuendo will define his May?...