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Word: boing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guess a style is not a style until a white woman wears it. Wearing one's hair in cornrows [Jan.28] has been "in style"since my great-grandmother was a child. Cicely Tyson has worn cornrows for years, but not until blond, white Bo Derek wears them will anyone admit that they are beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 25, 1980 | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

Truth was not Schrader's goal, however. He tried to create a tense, sexual rhythm of color and sound, the lust of America pressed to a video disk. But he directs with the subtlety of Bo Derek disrobed, surrounding Julian with red-colored objects and shadowy bars, trapping him in a bloody, infernally chic hell...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Low Gear Tricks | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

...cupcakes at 50 paces. One duelist was Dewi Sukarno, 39, the sloe-eyed, Japanese-born widow of the Indonesian strongman and a relentless Paris partygoer for the past half a dozen years. Her antagonist: the legendary Regine, 50, who has parlayed her soignée Paris boīte into a chain of expensive nightclubs reaching to New York and eight other cities. Three years ago, Regine barred Dewi from the Paris motherhouse for slapping another customer. Dewi sued in court, and now she has won a clear, if toothless, decision: the joint, ruled a French judge, is a public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 4, 1980 | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

Stanford Blum, who holds merchandising rights on both the Moscow Olympics and Bo Derek posters, on the $100 million sales loss he faces from a boycott of the Games: "I'll survive. I've got Bo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 4, 1980 | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

...Bo Lozoff, director of the Prison Ashram project, said he has helped compile prayer and meditation techniques from major religions into a manual to help prisoners cope with their environment...

Author: By David Lawrence, | Title: Prison Speech | 1/30/1980 | See Source »

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