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Word: whores (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world of "Dance: Part One" becomes personified on the rest of the side; the Dynamo becomes the Virgin or, more precisely, the Whore. Women, or relationships with women, are the stuff of experience, and all experience is a woman. Evidently, Jagger is still obsessed with his divorce, and "Summer Romance," "Send It To Me," and "Let Me Go" al concern breaking up. "Summer Romance" is the apotheosis of the summer song, jumping like a convertible with tight shocks on the way to Jones Beach. "Send It To Me," a bizarre reggae tribute to Motherhood and the women of the Warsaw...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: The Man Who Loved Woman | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...world of "Dance: Part One" becomes personified on the rest of the side; the Dynamo becomes the Virgin or, more precisely, the Whore. Women, or relationships with women, are the stuff of experience, and all experience is a woman. Evidently, Jagger is still obsessed with his divorce, and "Summer Romance," "Send It To Me," and "Let Me Go" all concern breaking up. "Summer Romance" is the apotheosis of the summer song, jumping like a convertible with tight shocks on the way to Jones Beach. "Send It to Me," a bizarre reggae tribute to Motherhood and the women of the Warsaw...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: The Man Who Loved Women | 8/1/1980 | See Source »

...against red lips in a pale mask of a face. Some of the women, their faces blurred by laughter or squinched up into pug masks of greed, seem to predict by ten years the jittery misogyny of German expressionism. Woman in Blue, 1901, with her fierce little Aubrey Beardsley whore's head surmounting the dress of a Velázquez court portrait, is an especially compelling example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Show of Shows | 5/26/1980 | See Source »

...dangerously. Even countries that have adapted best to recent economic problems, notably West Germany and Japan, suffer inflation or slow growth. The world money system that functioned like a Swiss watch for a quarter-century has been sending off alarms. Gold, the barbarous relic that Shakespeare called the "common whore of mankind," has become the refuge for a world fearful of returning to an economic jungle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Capitalism: Is It Working...? Of Course, but... | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

...falls for Haze; Enoch Emery, the idiot teenage zookeeper who finds a bizarre solution to Haze's search for a new Jesus; Hoover Shoats, the mercenary street preacher who seizes on Haze's Church Without Christ as an exciting new way to fill his coffers; and Leora Watts, the whore who gives Haze his first bed when he arrives in the big city...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Hellfire and Damnation | 4/5/1980 | See Source »

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