Word: wanna
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...field of eleven tentative opponents, Old Earl's chief problem probably will be New Orleans' handsome, hard-working Mayor DeLesseps Morrison (TIME, Jan. 30, 1956), who lost to Long under an avalanche of upcountry votes in 1956. So confident is Earl of winning ("I wanna give that little squirt Della Soups Morrison one more beating") that he is even trying statesmanship. To a crowd gathered for a bridge dedication at Natchitoches he solemnly suggested that the Governor's office be put under civil service. Knowing Earl, remembering Huey, the crowd just laughed...
...wanna be a lion," Gertrude Stein announced to her brother Leo. So she followed him to Cambridge, and, in 1893, registered at the "Harvard Annex." Gertrude Stein has since become legend. Not only did she define the rose, but she influenced such men as Picasso, Matisse, Hemingway...
Genet writes of prison life with an almost unique authenticity, not only as a criminal, but as a philosopher of criminality. Many writers have cried with Eartha Kitt, "I wanna be evil," and written accordingly; but Genet is evil. The Oscar Wilde of Salome, and perhaps the Tennessee Williams of Suddenly Last Summer, appear as if they might have wanted to be Genet when they grew up; compared to him they are only dilettantes of degradation. When they write of the most deep-going taint they can imagine, they are on the outside looking eagerly in, almost with their noses...
...Eartha Kitt advanced her feline personality across the footlights," wrote a London critic, "offering songs full of menace and other unmentionable qualities and complaining I Wanna Be Evil, as if we did not know." Then, after the Royal Variety Performance, Eartha became a wide-eyed child in brief converse with Queen Elizabeth...
...reds," as she calls the deep blues, and shudders at thoughts of "the fat woman," as she calls death, she likes to cab past Tiffany's and "breakfast" on its jeweled serenity, or else crawl out on her fire escape with her cat and sing "Don't wanna sleep, Don't wanna die, Just wanna go a-travelin' through the pastures...