Word: boing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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JAMES MEIGS, editor in chief, Premiere magazine: "Tarzan the Ape Man [1981; 5]. I don't think six or seven minutes go by without Bo Derek getting her shirt wet, and it's still boring...
...recall Elvis backstage at the Apollo Theater in New York City, watching with fascination the great R.-and-B. pioneers Bo Diddley and Jackie Wilson. He, in turn, would be listened to and watched by performers who worshipped him. The roots of his influence went deeply into almost all forms of rock-'n'-roll music, including blues rock and rockabilly. Presley led not only his fans but also performers worldwide. There had never been such an idol. The world had seen Rudolph Valentino in films drive young women insane. The postwar bobby-soxers screamed for Sinatra. But before the Beatles...
According to John E. "Bo" Kemp, a second-year student at HBS and the head of the 10-member Class Day committee charged with selecting this year's speaker, "The relevance of somebody like Secretary Rubin coming to speak here is that he is someone who worked his way up to become co-chair of Goldman, Sachs and then he broke away to do something completely different...
DIED. JOHN DEREK, 71, dreamy actor-director whose real talent lay not in his so-so acting (in All the King's Men and The Ten Commandments) but in marrying often and well (the four foxy actresses Patti Behrs, Ursula Andress, Linda Evans and, most recently, Bo Derek); of heart complications; in Santa Maria, Calif...
...centuries, these mountains in the heart of China, 250 miles southwest of Shanghai, have been a destination for artists and poets (among them the renowned Li Bo), who come to commune with nature in one of its more striking poses--and struggle to replicate its beauty. Along with the artists and poets come lovers, who clasp locks symbolic of their undying fidelity to the chain fences that protect hikers from the plunging precipices. Seventy miles of trails wind around 72 peaks, the two most majestic of which are Capital of Heaven and Lotus Flower. The highest of the mountains...