Word: okaying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...record sounds like sunshine and turns out to be a tonic rebuke to solid values and positive thinking. "Well, I've seen sex and I think it's okay" goes the unsolicited but unimpassioned testimonial in Creatures of Love, one of two songs on the album that are about children. Like the visionary folk art that decorates the record sleeve, these two tunes about little ones impart a deceptively cozy air that is undercut with a keen sardonic edge. "We are . . . creatures of love/ From the sleep of reason" is the way the refrain runs, and Little Creatures becomes...
Mitterand: You've got to play it strategically. Botha, Remember our agreement? I okay the investment pullout, our boys in the U.N. put forward a few proposals that sound good but will never get much support...
...Botha: Okay, I'll keep listening to your guys. But could you promise me one thing...
...they see themselves? "Are you familiar with the John Wayne movie in which he puts out fires on oil rigs?" Elvy asks. It seems vaguely familiar. 'Okay. Well, I see us as John Wayne figures, only there's no fire and we don't have the TNT to blow up the oil barrels...
...meeting people from different parts of the even of the world, has made him see that country," adds Duncan. "He's a volleyball player, and a very good one at that, but volleyball players are a dime a dozen in southern California gone to UCLA, he might have made okay, but he certainly wouldn't have been a star...