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Word: boing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effort to urge the administration of President Bush to withdraw from Central America by Christmas, and to further other activist causes, Joseph Moynahan founded the local group "U.S. Citizens Revolt." At his demonstration yesterday, Moynahan attached $500 in one-dollar bills--each inscribed with "BO" for "Bush Out"--to helium balloons, which he then released over the Square...

Author: By Mary T. Teichert, | Title: Central America Pullout Urged | 11/30/1989 | See Source »

...anti-Bush administration statement he distributed. "If in the military, you may be in a position to spike the weapons systems. If you're in media or if you're an electronics whiz, you might break into a boring Bush speech with a jest, or loudly repeat BO-BO-BO, or insert a blinking image of a gunman shooting down a child. What an imaginative computer hacker might contrive boggles the mind...

Author: By Mary T. Teichert, | Title: Central America Pullout Urged | 11/30/1989 | See Source »

...Scully's prices through his regular dealer David McKee have jumped from $90,000 to $140,000 in the past six months, but Scullys are trading on the secondary market as high as $350,000, and Saatchi recently unloaded a block of nine of them on the Swedish dealer Bo Alveryd, who last month spent $70 million at three London galleries (Marlborough, Waddington and Bernard Jacobson) before moving on to the New York fall auctions. There he underbid the $20.68 million De Kooning and bought, among other things, a Johns for $12.1 million. "I thought Saatchi had good intentions," Scully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sold! The Art Market: Goes Crazy | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...jamming. Meanwhile, as late-night's first successful black talk host, he has turned his guest couch into TV's liveliest melting pot. Rap groups get as much attention as Hollywood legends; George Hamilton or Glenn Close might find themselves rubbing elbows with one of the Jacksons -- Jesse or Bo. And when things get slow, Eddie Murphy or Mike Tyson could drop in unannounced. Man, this show is loose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Let's Get Busy!! | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

...Mavericks have a dominating frontline with James "Don't Call Me Sam" Donaldson, Roy Tarpley and Sam Perkins, and "Bo" Derek Harper and Rolando Blackman can hold their own against any backcourt tandem in the league. Depth is the only problem here...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: The 'Little Red Riding Hood' Odyssey Begins | 11/7/1989 | See Source »

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