Word: wanna
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...alone in a world where “He’s forgotten but not yet gone.” In, “Zak and Sara,” the heroine foresees the eventual rise of rave music and drugs while listening to her boyfriend play tired, Whitesnake wanna-be riffs on his guitar. And “Rockin’ The Suburbs” serves as the latest parody of the music business. And of course, Folds played the title track of his new album. Following the tradition of “Underground?...
...wanna be stereotyped, I wanna be classified” at face value. Compare, if you will, the biting social criticism of Milo Auckerman with Gob’s wet-napkin approach to punk: “How I long to see your eyes / Your eyes fill me up I breathe them inside / I have your image deep inside of me / I hold your picture it’s a part...
...consistent player doesn’t lose...much. I lost $500 in the last couple of days, but I’m still about even for the year because if you play a lot you can’t afford to lose all the time. If you wanna keep playing, it just can’t be too expensive for you to play. What happens with the regulars is that the money gets mostly pushed around in a circle. So the only way they’re going to make any money playing poker is to invite new people...
...wanna be a shepherd...I wanna move up to Nashua, get a nice little spread, get some sheep and tend to them.” Of course, these wise words belong to Will Hunting, but Matt and Ben, always in tune with the nation’s youth, seem to have keyed into a desire that we all share. The time has come to act on that wish, to care less about our stocks and more about our sheep...
...cigarettes (1) are annoying to non-users; (2) require users to huddle out-of-doors; (3) are addictive; (4) are the result of social pressures; (5) are a means of connecting with others (“Can I bum a cig?” or “You wanna go have a smoke and talk?”); (6) engender constant fiddling; (7) are more convenient versions of an existing technology (pipe is to cigarette as landline is to cell phone); and (8) are incongruous luxuries for Third World inhabitants, often at the expense of basic necessities. Indeed, where...