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...wonderfully gross, fiercely moralistic movie Heathers, a nasty teen queen is asked, "Why are you such a megabitch?" Her answer: "Because I can be." Because of freedom of expression, comics and musicians can now be as nasty as they wanna be. And nasty is the word. In the erotic masterpieces of literature, sex was an expression of pleasure, and often of love, between equals. Today's sex talk, from Kinison and Clay and the 2 Live Crew, is almost exclusively from the male-pig viewpoint. A woman's role, their line goes, is only to serve and service...
...wearing crew gear, talking about crew and being friends with other crew members. I wear it because I am proud of it, talk it because I like it, and choose my friends for the same reasons everyone else does. So enough with the complaints of these thinly-disguised wanna-bes. Either join up or shut...
...winning a second term. He is trying to boost his chances by leaping on an unlikely issue. He has asked the state prosecutor to bring obscenity and racketeering charges against a popular rap-music band, the 2 Live Crew, for recording an album whose title, As Nasty As They Wanna Be, aptly describes its contents...
HENRY V. Kenneth Branagh, 28, is the Olivier wanna-be of the '80s. In this version, keenly faithful to the famous 1944 film, the actor-director stakes his boldest claim yet to Lord Larry's title. The elite cast -- a veritable Burke's Peerage of British acting -- makes it a royal, enjoyable feast...
Which brings us to our "epitaph." After reading an article that assumes that Romanticism died somewhere in between Woodstock and the Reagan years, and in which my generation is an MBA-armed phalanx of investment banker wanna-bees, and in which the analytical core consists of William Shakespeare, Dylan Thomas and W.B. Yeats, I hope the poet-legislators of the world remain unacknowledged; my epitaph is not their concern. J.D. Connor...