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Word: wham (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Talk about bad luck!" says Caltech geologist Brian Wernicke, squinting through a telescopic eyepiece at an aerial photo of Landers, California, a small town in the middle of the Mojave desert. "Wham! Right through this house. Wham! Right through that house. The funny thing is, there aren't that many houses out here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News From the Underground | 8/24/1992 | See Source »

...class vs. crass. While he acts aloof and demure, she flatters his prettiness, then gets quickly to the business at hand. Soon they are shrugging off age prejudices like unwanted clothes, the quicker to satisfy their passion. She: "I'm 43." He: "I'm 27." Who cares? Wham! Their sex scenes, more intense than anything in the NC- 17 Henry & June, manage to suggest that all lovemaking carries, like a secret genetic code, the memory of all previous loves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Odd Coupling | 11/12/1990 | See Source »

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