Word: boyish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Formidable Edge. Fan mail for the boyish, neatly polished Brokaw is running at about the same volume, with so far not one word of disfavor. Because it has only been a year since he was plucked from Los Angeles' KNBC to compete with CBS's Dan Rather, Brokaw's success surprised network executives. "Many of us did not realize that he had such poise, wit and delightful humor," burbles Schulberg. Among those who matter-NBC Board Chairman Julian Goodman, President Herbert Schlosser, News President Richard Wald-Brokaw is also thought to have "more magnetism and impact" (read...
...shaky when the friendship between Thunderbolt and Lightfoot is sentimentalized, and at the end, when invention gives in to a mawkish resolution. But all the performers are excellent, and Eastwood unwinds a little from his customary characterization of a terse, razor-eyed stranger, breaking through to a kind of boyish affability. Cimino himself renders most of the movie with enough cunning to make it one of the most ebullient and eccentric diversions around...
Oldtime magicians seemed to breathe the hooded air of the occult. They were like satanists in white ties. Canadian-born Doug Henning, 27, is not at all like that. Physically wispy, amiably diffident and almost self-surprised, he creates the impression of a boyish Walter Mitty who imagines that he could be a magician...
...same-of the mythic Andersson family emigrating from Sweden, its terrors of the new country, its settling, its dances, a child's death, the plague of locusts that wiped out the farm and drove the family into rural show business. Terry Hinz is perfect as the boyish paterfamilias, but one remembers especially the dazed, inward quality of Mary Wright as Mrs. Andersson. Hers is a portrait of private, immigrant pride, of anyone who ever tried to live with dignity in a new language...
With a smile and a hint of boyish pride, the stout man in horn-rimmed glasses ushered Galina Ulanova into the three-room hotel suite. For the leading dancer of the Bolshoi Ballet, freshly arrived in New York on a first visit to the U.S., only the finest would do. In her refrigerator Ulanova found champagne, caviar and other necessities of the ballet life. Everywhere she looked there were flowers. In the sitting room stood the biggest surprise: a specially constructed exercise bar backed by floor-length mirrors. "So, my dear," said the man, "you can practice here...