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Word: wanna (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scene of electrifying revulsion, Raul coaches Marjorie on how to beg for his sexual assault: "Touch my hair. My mouth. My neck . . . Now touch me down there and say you wanna make love!" In a desperate last-minute lunge, Marjorie grabs hold of a roach-killer can and sprays the chemical directly into Raul's eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Hand Grenade | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

Clever but virulent wordplay abounded. "I don't wanna be your lover--I just wanna be your victim," Elvis sputtered in his souped-up homage to whacking-off that he not-so-subtly dubbed "The Beat." And he bragged in "Lipstick Vogue," "Sometimes I almost feel...just like a human bein...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: Growing Up With Elvis | 9/21/1982 | See Source »

...Tempest, Mazursky is describing not only a mid-life crisis but, metaphorically, the need of an artist-entertainer to escape the pressure to be both profitable and profound. "I wanna quit, I wanna get out, I wanna travel, dream, wander!" Cassavetes exclaims. Mazursky seconds the emotion the only way he knows how: by making a movie about not wanting to be involved in the business of moviemaking. Eventually, though, the artist must return home chaste and chastened. The climax of this two-hour 20-minute odyssey is a series of ecstatic helicopter shots over Lower Manhattan. It is a refreshing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Comic's Demons | 8/16/1982 | See Source »

...skirmishes that could end only in conquest or stalemate, never détente. Who knows how to talk to them? A young man's sensible priorities- pro football, rhythm and blues, hanging out-were adolescent irrelevancies to his date, or even his mate. Then again, why bother? "You wanna talk," philosophizes one fellow in this terrific little comedy, "you always got the guys at the diner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Five Friends | 4/19/1982 | See Source »

...folks at the College Board, most of whom hadn't seen a real live student since 1950, were more amused than anything else at the kinds of questions I told them my friends kept asking me, like, "Oh, you're working for the ETS. Wanna touch up my transcript?" Or, "Oh, you're making up the SATs. My sister's going into her senior year...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Verbal Aptitude | 3/9/1982 | See Source »

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