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Word: wanna (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much have the proprietary view of "people out there" as possible patrons of my services--that one not very oppressed must be a full-time doer of good. What little I know I am happy to share, but I no longer have earth-shaking ministrations to purvey. You wanna know about rutabagas, I'll tell you about rutabagas. You wanna know about how to make a correct revolution...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: Eulogies and Apologies | 3/17/1973 | See Source »

Early on in the first act, this season's femme fatale, a witch named Helza Poppins, starts casting spells on a Greek shipping magnate (Pluto Cratopoulos), a Canadian Mountie (Major Assburn) and his troops, Assburn's liberated-bopper of a charge (Mary Wanna), a hefty schoolmarm (Hortense Prune) and her maidens, One-Eyed Jack and his faithful Indian Toronto, two refugees from the frontiers of the 1840s. While they're all stomping around in Helza's "enchanted forest," Strong's unflattering imitations of Shakespearean romance require that they fall in love with each other in various un-lovely combinations until...

Author: By Bill Beckett, | Title: Bewitched Bayou | 3/1/1973 | See Source »

...fall line of Capri Casuals; endure a brief nervous breakdown; inhale a joint or two of cannabis; sleep with an aging love child off the Sunset Strip; dream of a pop apocalypse populated by everyone from Bobby Kennedy to James Earl Ray; and recite lines like "I wanna walk in the kind of rain that never washes perfume away." Under the circumstances, that gully of sweat staining the back of his pajamas is certainly understandable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Quick Cuts | 2/19/1973 | See Source »

After 23 years of marriage what can you give your wife? Clothes, jewelry, perfume-all old hat. But what about a seat in the U.S. Senate? Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards popped that very proposal to his wife Elaine last week. "Wanna go to Washington?" he asked her. "Are you kidding," she replied. "What for?" "To take Ellender's seat in the Senate." Openmouthed, speechless response. Fadeout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Promise Her Anything | 8/14/1972 | See Source »

...alone, instead of with her bassist. As it was she managed to give open support to a lot of her musical friends, who she introduced one by one through her set. Bonnie's music is summed up by a Sippie Wallace tune called "You Can Make Me Do Whatcha Wanna Do, But Ya Gotta Know How." It was her best effort for a crowd that was either still entering, or just beginning to get comfortable and in any case, certainly wasn't listening to her. John Payne's soprano took the song right back to the thirties and Bonnie Smith...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blues in the Night | 8/4/1972 | See Source »

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