Word: booed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the blue bulldog yells, "Boola, boola, boo." --Veritas...
...Mockingbird, Harper Lee. Because it's not every novel that has its young heroine dressed like a ham for a Halloween pageant, because Lee creates the archetypical American neighborhood and has the good grace to let you explore it, kid-like, by the light of midnight streetlamps, and because Boo Radley, with his taste for live squirrels and last-minute heroics, is the embodiment of Halloween itself--a big, lurking Boogie Man, with a heart of gold...
Professor Marius, I realize that this Commencement was just one of many that you have been involved in. This was, however, my only Commencement. It did little for me, my parents or my friends to witness the class of 1987 boo and hiss their own orator. Coupled with the mediocre performance of last year's undergraduate speaker, I am concerned that the process of choosing speakers has become a travesty. Only my memory of the stirring performance given by last year's graduate speaker, and this year's Latin Oration, give me hope that the present method of choosing speakers...
...latest offering, in which the prayers of his audiences are answered with a resounding negation. Mrs. Sorken Presents, presented by the A.R.T. at the Hasty Pudding Theater as part of the New Stages series, is, Durang's first new produced work since his autobiographical Marriage of Bette and Boo closed in New York last year. Unfortunately, he has left behind the rich vein of cultural and personal material he has tapped for ten years, and instead turned to parody and cheap laughs, quite appropriate, at least, for the Pudding stage...
Gonna: Oliver Stone, Platoon. Because Best Picture and Best Director are peanut butter and jelly. Here's a preview of Stone's acceptance speech: "I'd just like to thank...boo hoo hoo...all those kids who...boo hoo hoo...in the Big 'Nam. This one's for you, dudes! Take no prisoners...