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...Such story songs as Along Came Jones and Young Blood were inspired by Leiber's love of radio series like The Shadow. Their subjects ranged from knife fights and no-accounts to class clowns and the clap. That last can be found in what Leiber calls the "snide innuendo" of their hilarious Poison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nostalgia: Oldies But Goodies | 6/26/2000 | See Source »

...stud who always left a lady dreamily satisfied even if he had to dash out and fight when she just wanted to be held. And even - horrors! - white women wanted, and got, a piece of that action. His nephew, by contrast, despite a few lines of conversational innuendo, is remarkably sex-starved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Our Duty to Pooh-Pooh This PC-Plagued 'Shaft' | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

PLEASE ALLOW MY DAUGHTER TO BUY CHRISTINA AGUILERA'S HIT SINGLE "GENIE IN A BOTTLE." AFTER CLOSE TEXTUAL ANALYSIS, I'VE CONCLUDED THAT THE LYRIC "RUB ME THE RIGHT WAY" IS NOT CHARMLESS INNUENDO, BUT RATHER THAT IT DESCRIBES THE MOST COMMON METHOD FOR RELEASING GENIES FROM BOTTLES...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notes From Your Parents | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

...Stuart Buck ever met Bishop Spong or heard him speak? (Op-Ed, March 6). He sounds as if he is rehashing a compendium of lies, rumors and poisonous innuendo circulated by a politically motivated faction of "Christians." If the purpose of the Noble lectures is to help students of Harvard discover Jesus, then the committee was quite right to invite Bishop Spong to speak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters To The Editor | 3/14/2000 | See Source »

...experience doesn't awe me. The act of sitting at a computer is so unaesthetic and unsexy--all those cables, that horrid fluorescent screen, those puny two-dimensional images. Give me a human voice over e-mail. I like the sound of communicative delivery--the tone of voice, the innuendo. Of course, I appreciate convenience when I'm using a search engine to find gifts, vacations or pieces of information. But as a way to spend leisure time--not for me. The closer the World Wide Web seems to bring us together, the truly farther apart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Will We Do On Saturday Night? | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

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