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Word: boing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bo Derek, the Perfect 10, make way for Bob Greene, the Imperfect 2½. Greene, 32, a Chicago Tribune columnist, has joined the ranks of four-color sex symbols with his own 16-in. by 22-in. poster. The work depicts him posing in a motel room door, his shirt slashed to the navel. Greene's pinup career began when he set out to do a column on the superstar poster business and called Marketcom/Crosswinds Corp., a Fenton, Mo., firm specializing in posters of big-name athletes. "One thing led to another, and we decided he could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Poster Boy | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...This film about a Hollywood Hills song writer, his hokey girlfriend and perverted neighbors is, in one word, terrible. Dudley Moore--of Good Evening fame--limps along mightily, running into Beverly Hills cops, the back of his telescope and, finally, the beautiful Bo Derrick. The woman is a "14" but, for some reason, her hair dresser thinks she's a Rasterfarian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From Hollywood for the Holidays | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...rather competent quarterback named Roger Staubach. College coaches value especially the precise execution that Moeller players learn. Woody Hayes made three recruiting trips to the school in his final year at Ohio State, and U.S.C.'s John Robinson, Penn State's Joe Paterno, Michigan's Bo Schembechler and Notre Dame's Dan Devine are regular callers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Moeller High's Holy Rollers | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

Directed by Mark Rydell Screenplay by Bill Kerby and Bo Goldman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Flashy Trash | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

...about those measurements of Pinup Starlet Bo Derek, 28-19-500,000? Those of course are the dimensions of a poster of Bo kneeling in the surf that has already sold 500,000 copies. Before the poster and her success in the film 10, Derek, 22, was known for her role in Orca, the Killer Whale, in which she was billed below Orca. Then came success. Now in addition to movie and television offers, Bo is out to improve on the dimensions of alltime Poster Star Farrah Fawcett, who measures 28-19-4 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 12, 1979 | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

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