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Word: hoo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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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 »

...play at an Elks' convention in Cleveland and stayed on in the U.S. Billed as Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians, the group developed a smoothly distinctive sound that was heard coast to coast on radio, sold over 100 million records and introduced some 600 hits including Boo-Hoo and Little White Lies. Cheerfully ignoring critics who called his music 'corny," Lombardo survived as the last great dance-band leader. His New Year's Eve concerts in New York City, which Began in 1929, became an institution. First on radio, then TV, Lombardo's rendition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 14, 1977 | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

...Rauschenberg was riding in one of these gondolas, through the mighty hoo-ha raised by his winning the first prize at the Venice Biennale. Few now doubted that art's center had migrated to New York, and this ignited an orgy of chauvinism on both sides of the Atlantic. Some forms of success, Degas once said, are indistinguishable from panic. This was one. Rauschenberg was now a celebrity, almost the Most Famous Artist in the World. His critics were quick to blame him for every crassness that attended the promotion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Most Living Artist | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

...other foreigners at Harvard have learned to make do with greasy and bland dining hall food, just because, as Korean Ok-Hoo Hanes says, "Convenience is important." They have learned exactly which ingredients to season their salads with, and in what proportions. And to spice their daily routine even further, they occasionally...

Author: By Judy Kogan, | Title: You Are What You Eat | 3/17/1976 | See Source »

...exhibited in Paris. Some of his big abstracts from the '20s, like Around a Point, must be reckoned among the most imposing feats of modern art. And yet the fundamental subject of his work remains inaccessible. It is like hearing someone describe an LSD trip: the cosmic hoo-ha is all there, but the listener cannot experience it in the retelling. Deprived of the heavenly choir of theosophical documents, all too many of Kupka's transcendental visions finish as pattern-not an ignoble fate, but less than he intended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Catching the Astral Plane | 10/13/1975 | See Source »

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