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Word: booed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Powell was booed by some delegates when he called for Republicans to respect him and others in the party who are at odds with the GOP platform in their support of abortion rights and affirmative action. The boo birds were quickly drowned out by delegates who cheered as Powell went...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dole Is Saluted By Powell, Bush | 8/13/1996 | See Source »

...average American homemaker does with her time. Most of us work either full- or part-time jobs just to make ends meet. How can we hire a staff to assist us in our attempt to be like her? She gives us all a complex, and I, for one, say, Boo! Hiss! SHIRLEY CASH Mount Jackson, Virginia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 8, 1996 | 7/8/1996 | See Source »

Through it all, she was looking to improve, mature, branch out. "The next album I release, people could go, 'Boo, hiss, hiss, this girl's like another Tiffany or whatever,'" she told the Calgary Herald in 1991. "But the way I look at it...people will like your next album if it's a kick-ass one." In 1994 Morissette signed with Maverick records--run by Madonna, who knows a thing or two about musical makeovers--and with Jagged Little Pill has delivered the butt-kicking album she wanted. The sound is more muscular; her voice is rawer, the guitar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: ALANIS MORISSETTE: YOU OUGHTA KNOW HER | 2/26/1996 | See Source »

THIS IS THE WAY HOLLYWOOD wants it: before long, all movies will be made by guys sitting at computers or playing with giant mechanical toys. The lions and raptors and aliens will go Boo! as they are programmed to do, and audiences will go Eek! as they are programmed to do. Occasionally, the films will require actors, listed in the credits as "Special Human Effects," but they won't need viewers with minds of their own. These movies will be ideal for the cybergeneration: machines playing to machines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: TOY SCARY | 12/18/1995 | See Source »

...found the following spell in Madame Nack-wackyginger's Bibbity-Bobbity-Boo: The Best Spells and How to Cast Them (Random House, $14.95, hardcover...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Norma Knows | 4/27/1995 | See Source »

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