Word: boing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Black women began adopting it in the early 1970s: the venerable African custom of wearing hair woven into small, tight braids fastened at the ends with cowries, beads and sometimes feathers. But since blond Starlet Bo Derek turned up sporting the style in this season's hit film comedy "10, "women of all hues have been badgering hairdressers for what they call "the Bo look." It does not come cheap: a braiding job costs anywhere from $80 to $300, and it takes four to eight hours to finish. But once done, the hair can be shampooed daily and will...
Accidents in private aircraft, which last year killed 1,215 people, occur in a variety of ways, but none more bizarre than the one that happened last week when Pilot Lou Benscotter picked up Robert ("Bo") Rein, the new football coach at Louisiana State University, and began to fly from Shreveport to Baton Rouge...
...critics. He adds: "Thank God the critics aren't quite as important as they used to be." Another surprise is the booming box office for the comedy "10,"which has made $51 million since it was released in October, largely because of the multiple attractions of Bo Derek...