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Word: sheena (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Love," explores adolescent sexuality with all the subtlety of a rubber hygiene implement. And it hardly requires a degree from the Motor City School of Imagery to figure out what Franklin means when she refers to her "pink Cadillac": the phrase does for Springsteen's infamous auto what Sheena's "sugar walls" did for the dextrose concession...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: Vinyl in Boston | 10/10/1985 | See Source »

...have said, 'That's it--no further,' " says Ann Kahn, president of the NPTA. It is not only the W.A.S.P. who stand accused. It seems as though everyone is coming down on Judas Priest, Motley Crue, AC/DC, Twisted Sister and other metal machines. Madonna is being scrutinized. So is Sheena Easton, singing about her "sugar walls," and Sheila E., strutting her stuff. And Prince, going on about a girl masturbating with a magazine. And Michael Jackson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rock Is a Four-Letter Word | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

...Should you be with the dormitory with the melodies of AC/DC, Sheena Easton, Kenny Rogers, or Adam and the Ants, at an hour at which your parents would be asleep, imagine what would happen if you were doing it at home...

Author: By Jennifer A. Kingson, | Title: We Need You, Emily Post | 2/4/1985 | See Source »

...Sheena C. Phillips, a graduate of Cambridge University, England, is a researcher at the Union of Concerned Scientists...

Author: By Sheena C. Phillips, | Title: How Likely Is 'Accidental' Nuclear War? | 4/2/1981 | See Source »

...seriously," insisted Lead Singer Joey to TIME'S John Buckman. "It's no joke, no novelty act. We're not clowns." The nice thing about the Ramones is that one can take them seriously and have a good laugh at the same time. Tunes like Sheena Is a Punk Rocker and Rockaway Beach are feckless, speedy japes that play fast and loose with rock styles and traditions even as they pay tribute to them. Onstage, the boys look like aging incorrigibles, the bottom four students in the remedial class at vocational high school. They play with headlong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Going After the Real Nuts | 3/10/1980 | See Source »

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