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Word: boing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...back on-screen after a 20-year lapse and cool as a leprechaun sphinx in the role of a wily New York City police commissioner. Only Elizabeth McGovern seems out of tune and time. She plays Evelyn Nesbit as the daffily dumb prototype for every bombshell from Marilyn to Bo-cheeks puffed, eyes glazed, tripping through life in a sweet stupor. She weighs the film down before Rollins & Co. have the chance to make it soar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: One More Sad Song | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

...their time," and sometimes too out of control for their own good. This is raucous stuff, and lead singer David JoHansen sings of love, drugs, and insanity from firsthand knowledge. Don't be put off by the transvestite image; this is great rock and rool. "Personality Crisis" and the Bo Diddley song "Pills" from the first album, and the remake of "Stranded in the Jungle" on the second are the best, but there's oodles of fun for everyone who ever felt rebelliousness. And priced cheap...

Author: By David M. Handelman, | Title: The Demons of Pseudo-Euro-Disco; Jeffreys, Hunter, Kinks & Stones Redux | 10/29/1981 | See Source »

...vinyl soul and looked inside. The Lampoon did not look for a heart of darkness and did not find one; what appears instead is a catalogue of foibles, not sins, in a nation of genial losers. All is well, if not exactly perfect, in the land of Brooke and Bo. Incidentally, the whole thing is pretty funny...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Wealth and Puberty | 10/21/1981 | See Source »

...math is simple: ten plus ten equals 20. But the relationship between perfectly proportioned Bo Derek and her similarly endowed sister Kelly Collins seems rather more complex. Kelly, 20, who has worked as a sultry stand-in for her elder sister, is preparing to star in a new film called K.A.O.S., a campus whodunit. Kelly, green at the acting game, confesses she is "scared to death," but is not daunted by her sister's histrionic talents: "Frankly, I haven't seen anything in which Bo showed she could act." Although they may not be in the Olivia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 19, 1981 | 10/19/1981 | See Source »

...picture of actress Bo Derek on her knees at the end of a leash held by her husband, John, has spurred international interest in the upcoming special, the Lampoon's president, Jeff S. Martin '82, said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lampoon's Parody of 'People' Appears Nationally Tomorrow | 10/14/1981 | See Source »

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