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Word: boa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rock groups were scheduled to play during the afternoon in the Common, but they didn't show up. All was not lost, however, as the Zoomobile from the Boston Zoological Society arrived with a complement of 15 captives, ranging from a four-horn sheep to a six-foot boa constrictor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trout Fishermen Wander to Common | 11/3/1969 | See Source »

...madwoman (Katharine Hepburn) is a spinster who believes in young love, freedom and graciously decadent living. She feeds all the cats in her Paris suburb, writes daily letters to herself, lives in a mansion and worries equally about her 9-ft. feather boa and the loss, many years past, of her only lover. She would seem to be easy prey for a cartel of international shysters (Yul Brynner, Paul Henreid,* Charles Boyer, Donald Pleasence and Oscar Homolka among them) who have discovered oil under the old lady's property. But she will not be moved, and she wins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: The Doily and the Dumpling | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS. American alligator, blunt-nosed leopard lizard, San Francisco garter snake, Puerto Rican boa, Santa Cruz long-toed salamander and Texas blind salamander, Houston and Inyo County toads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Escape from Extinction | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

FUNNY GIRL. Barbra Streisand becomes a movie star in this musical biography of Fanny Brice, whose brassy personality fits the leading lady like a feather boa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Records, Cinema, Books: Oct. 25, 1968 | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

...outdone by Moth, Longaville, when it comes time to read his sonnet, picks up the hand-mike and turns the poem into a rock 'n' roll number with off-stage singers and orchestra. Following suit, Dumaine, flipping the microphone cord like a boa, caresses himself and gyrates as he belts out his rock sonnet while the other men provide a snap-fingered accompaniment--a number that deservedly stops the show...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: 'Love's Labour's Lost' Midst Rock 'n' Raga | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

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