Word: boa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attained the status of folk hero. I met up with Goldberg the other night at Manhattan's Princeton Club, where a group of New York conservatives meet monthly for drinks and palaver. She swept into the room wearing a black pants outfit and a long, charcoal gray feather boa. With her gold cigarette holder and her swampy voice, she seemed a cross between Angela Lansbury and Jimmy Cagney. She made straight for the bar, and conversational clusters parted like the Red Sea as she passed...
...home number. Called him up. His boyfriend answered and put him on the line. I said, 'You mention my name again, and you are outed.' He said, 'I don't take kindly to threats.' I said, 'This is not a threat. It's a promise.'" She adjusts her feather boa and raises her eyebrows...
...threat," she says, adjusting her feather boa and reaching for another Marlboro. "It's a promise...
When Jesse ("The Body") Ventura starred on the professional wrestling circuit in the 1970s and '80s, he was usually cast as the bad guy. Decked out in a feather boa, sequins and the kind of oversize designer glasses Elton John made famous, the 6-ft. 4-in. Ventura would flex his muscles, glower at opponents and spit out such gems of wrestling wisdom as, "Win if you can, lose if you must, but ALWAYS cheat...
...that he's a candidate for Governor of Minnesota, Ventura, 47, has hung up his boa and no longer espouses cheating. But to the state's Democrats and Republicans, the former wrestler, actor and radio shock jock is still playing the bad guy. Most observers had considered Ventura's shoestring Reform Party campaign an entertaining sideshow to the main event. Then a new poll in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune showed him with an impressive 21% of the vote--double what he had had a month before and within striking distance of his two major rivals. Gnarled in a statistical headlock...