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Word: booed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moment by Moment is an awful movie, but it may some day occupy a hallowed place in the pantheon of high camp. This isn't your everyday Hollywood boo-boo; the film is downright perverse. For a couple of hours, two of the screen's best actors, John Travolta and Lily Tomlin, walk around overdecorated rooms and whisper sweet nothings to each other. They have sex in a Jacuzzi full of bubble bath. They build sand castles on a Malibu beach. They fondle cute dogs. They say things like: "I don't even know what the word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Winter Camp | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

...crash was all the more humiliating, after the dizzying descent, because it came before their adoring fans, who came to cheer and stayed to boo. In Fenway Park, their beloved tiny gem of a stadium, the Boston Red Sox did the unthinkable: they lost four straight to the New York Yankees, their hated rivals, whiffing the breeze with their bats and booting grounders like soccer players. The tragedy had been unfolding for weeks, painfully, inexorably, the most fascinating horror story of the major leagues this year. The Red Sox had a 14-game lead over the Yankees just two months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: How Boston's Mighty Have Fallen | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

...EITHER the plot or the acting provide the continuity that the cinematography lacks. The peek-a-boo piece in Playboy led us to believe that Violet's mother, Hattie (Susan Sarandon) would be a reluctant and ambitious hooker who dreamed of getting out. But Sarandon the ruthlessness to flesh out that theme. She simply ups and weds one of her johns in the middle of the movie--leaving Violet being and leaving us wondering why she did it, and where we missed something. Less self-explanatory still is David Carradine's portrayal of the photographer-suitor, Bellocq. When he first...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Malle a la Coquette | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

Part of August's act, lead singer of the Boo Hoo Band, includes sexually molesting an inflatable doll while wrapped in Saran Wrap, plunging a dagger into occupied tables in the club audience, and pouring hot wax on his bare chest...

Author: By Laura J. Levine, | Title: Riding High on the New Wave | 1/25/1978 | See Source »

...official say, "Hey, that was a tough call; let me see the instant replay." Schachter on the disputed calls I saw one of them while I was in the hospital. I told the nurse that the official probably wished he was in the hospital with me. Bell on the boo birds Sure, it's a tendency for the home team; any time a tough call goes against their team, they are going to boo. That's natural. That's what they pay their money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Now for the Zebras... | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

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