Word: boyish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thought that this man of steel could be moved by the afflictions of mere mortals. But then, who are we to blame him? Can we force back the tears at the sight of good Republican citizens, some even millionaires, faced with humiliation and perhaps prison, all for a few boyish (if illegal) pranks...
FRIDAY: Tom Sawyer. Twain's classic tale of boyish mischief on the Mississippi comes to television minus some of Tom's mischief and with an Ontario setting. Very Walt Disney. CH. 7. 8 p.m. Color...
...sons, Denis Quilley and Ronald Pickup are more than adequate but, by comparison with Olivier and Cummings, less than satisfying. Quilley lacks Jamie's brass as a kind of Broadway bounder; Pickup fails to capture the boyish, romantic openness of the 23-year-old Edmund, O'Neill's image of his youthful self. Still, both succeed in expressing some of the play's sorrow and outrage at life's pattern of betrayal. "None of us can help the things life has done to us," Mary says at one point. "They're done before...
...took me a moment; the gray hair and the business suit were unfamiliar, but the boyish voice was unmistakable. I blurted out, "You're Jackie Robinson! I used to love...
...baseball questions, our conversation turned to what was on his mind. This was in 1967; his son was home from Viet Nam and having trouble with drugs. It was a situation he didn't understand, a mystery. I remember that his voice wasn't as boyish or incisive as he reasoned with his anxiety...