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The Bobo is a 1967 British comedy film directed by Robert Parrish and starring Peter Sellers and Britt Ekland. [5] It was written by David R. Schwartz, based on the 1959 novel Olimpia by Burt Cole, also known as Thomas Dixon.
Holly Lynn Bobo (October 12, 1990 – c. April 13, 2011) was an American woman who disappeared on April 13, 2011, from her family home in Darden, Tennessee. She was last seen alive by her brother, Clint, shortly before 8 a.m., walking into the woods outside her home with a man wearing camouflage .
Bobo (gorilla) a popular gorilla at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle from 1953 to 1968; Bobo, Vietnamese name for Job's tears, a plant of south-east Asia; Bo-Bo, a type of locomotive; Bobo, a bogeyman-like monster in Poland; Bobo brand, a product that is sold inexpensively under a relatively unfamiliar brand name
Bobo is a portmanteau word used to describe the socio-economic bourgeois-bohemian group in France, the French analogue to the English notion of the "champagne socialist". The geographer Christophe Guilluy has used the term to describe France's elite class, whom he accuses of being responsible for many of France's current problems.
The Bobo number about 110,000 people, with the great majority in Burkina Faso. The major Bobo community in the south is Bobo-Dioulasso, the second-largest city of Burkina Faso and the old French colonial capital. Further north are large towns, including Fô and Kouka, with Boura in the extreme north in Mali.
The word bobo, Brooks' most famously used term, is an abbreviated form of the words bourgeois and bohemian, suggesting a fusion of two distinct social classes (the counter-cultural, hedonistic and artistic bohemian, and the white collar, capitalist bourgeois). The term is used by Brooks to describe the 1990s successors of the yuppies.
William Correa (February 28, 1934 [1] – September 15, 1983), [2] better known by his stage name Willie Bobo, was an American Latin jazz percussionist of Puerto Rican descent. . Bobo rejected the stereotypical expectations of Latino music and was noted for his versatility as an authentic Latin percussionist as well as a jazz drummer easily moving stylistically from jazz, Latin and rhythm and ...
Bobo was born in French Equatorial Africa sometime in 1951. [2] When Bobo was approximately 2 weeks old, William "Gorilla Bill" Said captured him after killing the gorilla's mother, an acceptable and even admired practice at the time.