Boom won stage five in last year's Tour, the same day that the 2013 Tour winner, Chris Froome, crashed out of the race.
The Rabobank trio had been discreet as the chase intensified, and they profited to the full to give Boom the stage win from his Australian team-mate Michael Matthews, with Cavendish an annoyed man in fifth behind the Sky pairing of Geraint Thomas and Steve Cummings.
In 2007, at the height of the art boom, he staged a lucrative exhibition at which buyers included Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.
I started acting professionally during the post-9/11 boom for stage-one stereotypes, but I avoided them at the behest of my 18-year-old self.
In late May, the state decided to demonstrate some of these issues to Stanton by flying him over areas that needed boom, and staging areas where it sat, apparently unused.
"We need to know what it costs us!" A few days later, sitting at a transparent acrylic table in the firm's Clerkenwell gallery, surrounded by plinths displaying experimental furniture and daring cutlery, the 55-year-old German architect seems a little more sheepish than he did while booming on stage.
Although the pace and tone could hardly feel more different from Smiley's last novel, Ten Days in the Hills, set in modern-day Los Angeles, here again her gaze is trained on the interior of human relationships while the big guns of history boom off-stage.
Last year, the network capitalized on Friends' British boom by staging FriendsFest, a five-day exhibition in East London's Brick Lane that included recreations of the show's famous set pieces for superfans and their, er, friends, to nerd out over.
In the days of music hall, as detailed in Simon Napier-Bell's recent Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay book, stage stars would race each other to claim the sheet music hits of the day and perform the 'definitive' version as this worked as a loose form of ownership through association.
The band uses an electronic musical toy saxophone called a Sax-A-Boom on-stage.
