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Word: boa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blinding strobe lights flashed Alice strutted around the stage like Tiny Tim impersonating the Marquis de Sade. He stabbed a life-sized doll that drew a loud roar of approval. Then Alice allowed his pet boa constrictor to slither down his body and protrude its head between his legs. More roars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Schlock Rock's Godzilla | 5/28/1973 | See Source »

...mostly nostalgia and trash. With a few exceptions, mostly British, very little innovation surfaced. The main contributions of the two supergroups left, the Rolling Stones and the Grateful Dead, were Greatest Hit-type albums. And it took Alice Cooper to finally prove that a nihilistic bisexual wearing a boa constrictor and grotesque makeup could actually be boring...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: Folk and Country: Now More Than Ever | 1/26/1973 | See Source »

...more than a decade, the Bank of America in San Francisco has been spending $170,000 a year on free taxi rides home for 325 female employees who work after 8 p.m. Recently, male workers have complained that they are being discriminated against. Bowing to the pressure, BOA has decided to abolish the free rides; instead, it will provide free shuttle service to brightly lighted parking areas. But, as Key Punch Operator June Apedaile points out, "most women either don't have a car or don't want to drive." Having won their point, BOA'S male...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Male and Female | 1/8/1973 | See Source »

...Carriers bring in heroin (or cocaine) in innumerable ingenious ways?including, on one occasion, stuffing it inside a live boa constrictor. A more common method, however, is for women airline passengers to travel to Miami with cocaine or heroin hidden in their girdles or in false-bottomed suitcases. Near Santiago there is a factory specializing in making suitcases with hidden compartments. The agents are catching more and more such carriers, in part through use of a secret "smuggler's profile"?a telltale behavior pattern apparently common to amateur smugglers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NARCOTICS: Search and Destroy--The War on Drugs | 9/4/1972 | See Source »

Divorced once from one wife, three times from another, Peckinpah is presently unmarried, restless, dissatisfied. Trying to characterize the man, a friend recalls that Peckinpah once kept a pet boa constrictor in his office. One day, the friend found Peckinpah staring at the cage, which contained the snake and a petrified white mouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Peckinpah: Primitive Horror | 12/20/1971 | See Source »

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