Word: boyish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concert is a study in controlled flash, spectacular but not gaudy. Even the trappings of the typical rock super-production-smoke bombs, laser beams, meticulous lighting and shifting backdrops-are used sparingly, for maximum effect. McCartney, wide-eyed, boyish, bounces along eagerly on the warm good will of the crowd. He swings into his syncopated little ditty Silly Love Songs, a current hit single (number two on the charts) taken from his latest hit album, Wings at the Speed of Sound, out two months and already gone way past gold (a million dollars' worth of album sales) into platinum...
...Hampshire was past; Massachusetts and Florida were looming ahead in successive weeks. Even as the victory chants in a Manchester hotel broadened his gleaming grin, the boyish-looking candidate took the lectern to talk of the impending challenge by Alabama Governor George Wallace in Florida. Dropping his genteel accent, former Governor Jimmy Carter spoke jokingly in the redneck slang of his rural South, vowing, "And we gon' take 'im!" His traveling Georgia campaign workers whooped with joy. Then Carter, whose Secret Service code name is Dasher, flew off to Boston while most of his exhausted Democratic opponents slept...
...product of a far more peaceful campus, East Texas State, Dwight White, with his missing front tooth and boyish grin, makes a deceptively mild first impression. He laughs easily in a high-pitched voice and is the teaser and clown of the front four, letting out jungle cries in practice, needling Joe Greene about the publicity he gets, and booming to reporters, "I am the epitome of masculinity." But just beneath the engaging extravert there is a hair-trigger temper and barely repressed violence. "There are circumstances," he says, "when I can get so angry and pissed-off that...
...primary reason that The Greatest comes off so well is the style with which Ali tells his story. From his Class Day speech last year and his news conference a few weeks ago, Harvard students are familiar with the boyish, disarming nature of Ali, the kind of innocence cum street smartness that allowed him to utter the simple yet profound statement that "I got no quarrel with them Viet Cong." Ali is able to put this style into his writing as well...
Stand-Up Desk. An exuberant, energetic man with boyish good looks that are enhanced by aviator-type glasses, Rumsfeld prowls restlessly around his large corner office-he calls it "the cellophane box"-in a corner of the White House's West Wing, just a few quick paces from the Oval Office. He works at a stand-up desk, whisking through the papers that flow into the White House, then composing memos on a Dictaphone to be transcribed by one of his two secretaries...