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FinkFankFunk performed last and featured the largest musical arsenal of the evening: five horns, drums, keyboards, guitar, bass and a feather-boa clad lead singer, who spent most of the set on the floor crooning and strutting amidst the audience...

Author: By Nik I. Kovac, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Local Bands Compete | 2/28/2000 | See Source »

...worn a feather boa. He has body-slammed and headlocked his opponents. But the struggle over the Reform Party was too much for the former Navy SEAL and onetime professional wrestler. JESSE VENTURA was done with the party's atomization into factions and fiefs, the carping from Dallas, its creeping Buchananism. When JOHN ANDERSON, who ran for President as an independent in 1980, visited Ventura in Minnesota a few months back, he could tell the Governor was getting fed up. "He was tired of the dramatis personae," recalls Anderson, who briefly flirted with the idea of seeking the Reform Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Not My Party, So I'll Leave If I Want To | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

...creative breadth: playwright, actor, composer, lyricist, novelist, stage director, film producer, Vegas "entertainer." His nose for talent was such that he launched Laurence Olivier's career and produced the first four films directed by David Lean. "Success," he once said, "took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sad About the Boy: Noel Coward | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

Joel G. Maxwell '03 wore a slinky black cocktail dress to the meeting accessorized with a feathered white boa, which was wrapped about his neck. He drew bursts of laughter from the council when he announced he was dressed as council Vice President Kamil E. Redmond...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Council Dresses Up Routine Meeting | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

JESSE VENTURA, 48, Minnesota PROS 6 ft. 4 in., 250 lbs.; former Navy SEAL and pro wrestler; was nicknamed "the Body"; unofficial state slogan: "My Governor can beat up your Governor." CONS Wore pink tights and a feather boa; now called "the Mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Body Politic | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

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