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Word: woo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What is Seized" is a fragmented account of a mother-daughter relationship (one of Moore's recurrent obsessions) in which both characters attempt to come to terms with the painful legacy of a bad husband and father: 'Cold men destroy women,' my mother wrote to me years later. They woo them with something personable that they bring out for show, something annexed to their souls like a fake greenhouse, lead you in, and you think you see life and vitality and sun and greenness, and then when you love them, they lead you out into their real soul, a drafty...

Author: By Jean-christophe Castelli, | Title: Moore Slaps and Tickles in First Stories | 4/8/1985 | See Source »

...These are all the things that make a local station 'Boston'," he added, The former disc jockey--known on the air as "Woo-Woo"--predicted that his station will compete more for the attention of radio listeners, in particular, popular stations WBCN and WXKS, than the national video channel...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Debut of Free Video Channel May Steal Time From Radio, MTV | 2/26/1985 | See Source »

...addition to Kim Dae Jung, the new party's backers include Kim Young Sam, 57, who spent the election campaign under house arrest, and Party President Lee Min Woo, 70, a stem-winding orator who used the rarely spoken words dokcheja (dictator) and kunsa dokje (military dictatorship) in campaign speeches. Most of the N.K.D.P.'s new strength at the polls was drawn not from the ruling party but from another opposition group, the Democratic Korea Party, which gained 81 seats in the 1981 elections but only 35 this time. N.K.D.P. support was particularly strong in Seoul (pop. 9 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea a Challenge for President Chun | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

Women have had access to the Pill for nearly 30 years, and many now unabashedly woo reluctant dates with phone calls and American Express gold cards. But they are still not sure what to make of sex. On the one hand, they want the freedom to express their sexual needs; on the other hand, they resent the idea that they should "express themselves" after every dutch treat at the Steak 'n' Ale. Calls for the Sensitive Man alternate with pleas for a few good neo-Neanderthals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Finding Trouble in Paradise | 1/28/1985 | See Source »

...know your name is an adverb?" a woman he is trying to woo snaps at the title character. The wit in this spoof of the old-fashioned gangster melodrama never rises above that mildly agreeable level and is often below it. But perhaps because the writers outnumber Director Amy Heckerling 4 to 1, Johnny Dangerously offers more verbal felicity than it does visual flair. Heckerling has no feeling, affectionate or malevolent, for the genre she is trying to parody and no sense of comic rhythm either. The result is a thin and clumsy thing, in which talented Michael Keaton leads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes Johnny Dangerously | 1/14/1985 | See Source »

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