1. For years he was a boffo box office certainty.

2. While Roger Goodell had to watch a team no one cared about a month ago crashing his Super Bowl, Stern can start salivating at the prospect of another boffo matchup in the NBA Finals in June.

3. The five-part series of online workshops, at www. pwc. tv, will cover topics like: how to craft a boffo "elevator pitch" and how to articulate your long-term career goals to interviewers.

4. The "loyalty dance" was a fixture of China's Cultural Revolution, and Kang Wenjie's performance at a giant Maoist teach-in was boffo.

5. But you may remember that Larson is an extremely conservative investor who would naturally underperform in boffo years.

6. There are prestige actors who win tons of awards and then there are blockbuster actors who guarantee boffo box office around the world.