Word: boyish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country-populations ranging from 2,500 to 68,000-come dressed in similar garments of vulnerability. When Psychiatrist David Morrison flashes a cartoon slide showing a mouse with a defiant middle finger raised toward a fierce owl, there is silence for a moment. Then William Durham, the slight, dapper, boyish mayor of Burlington...
...appeared that the U.S. could solve most of its problems through its vaunted technology. To others, coming as it does in the midst of Skylab's downfall, it may be something of an embarrassment. By now most of the moon walkers have slipped into oblivion; even Armstrong, boyish no more, was barely recognized when he recently re-emerged on TV screens in automobile commercials...
...Antoine's restlessness the director sees love's unpredictability, its evanescence, its incompatibility with the rude dailiness of life. Truffaut believes true romance can last only as long as a fleeting, stolen kiss, but, even so, he is not a weary pessimist. Each time Antoine (the ever boyish Jean-Pierre Leaud) picks himself up off the floor for another doomed fling, it is a victory of the spirit. The best Doinel movies, The 400 Blows and Stolen Kisses (1968), are among the most hilarious and disturbing film comedies ever to chart the vicissitudes of human passion...
...writing his M.B.A. thesis at Harvard, he set up a consulting firm when still in his 20s. He advised businesses how to deal with computers, opened offices of the Diebold Group around the world, wrote four books and was decorated with numerous honorary degrees and princely medals. Now, still boyish looking and wide eyed at 52, he has signed up 22 blue chips that pay his company fat fees to learn how to cope with change in society...
...volatile mix. Blues Singer Joe Turner, a burly man with a boyish face, "sometimes ... pushes his words together, lopping off the consonants and flattening the vowels so that whole lines go past as pure melody, as pure horn playing." Ray Charles can sing anything but opera: "The sound of his pinewoods voice tearing along over violins and a choir is one of the wonders of music." Cabaret Singer Blossom Dearie, a honey-blond with a "boxed and beribboned" manner, offers a tiny sound that "without a microphone, would not reach the second floor of a doll house...