Word: boyish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...linebacker Gary Farneti, who has been dressing under Marinaro's confident, boyish gaze taped on his locker door, made eight tackles and knocked down a key pass...
...pants or skirts, a few motorcycle boys in mustaches and black leather. Whites, blacks, Orientals, Chicanos. Prayers are read. From a chair at the side, a husky 30-year-old man in vestments abruptly rises, steps swiftly out in front of the makeshift altar, and, flashing a beguiling, boyish smile, booms out: "If you love the Lord this morning, say 'Amen!' " "Amen!" roar the 700 worshipers -nearly all of whom are homosexuals. Another service of the Metropolitan Community Church is under...
TEETH. That's what you remember about John Tunney. He smiles-big, white, healthy, sparkling molars and incisors and canines. Surely they glow in the dark. Then comes that boyish face, blond hair and blue eyes, and the big frame, well over 6 feet, lanky with a little pot puffing up from too many gravied luncheons and dinners. But mainly he is arms and legs that might suddenly come unstrung one minute and collapse like an unravelable pretzel. With your eyes closed, the voice might be a Kennedy's-any of them, John or Robert or Edward...
Churchill liked to relax with a hot water bottle wrapped in a panda cover. Stalin had thin, sloping shoulders and achieved his robust look with a padded military greatcoat. George Bernard Shaw teased Nancy Astor about her boyish bosom. Such are the recollections in Memories, the just-published autobiography of Biologist-Author Sir Julian Huxley, 76. And how would Sir Julian himself like to be remembered? "Not primarily for my specialized scientific work, but as a generalist; one to whom, enlarging Terence's words, nothing human, and nothing in external nature, was alien...
Taylor is very much like Neil Young in his stage presence, in the way he tells stories and brings an audience to him. But he is not as boyish as Young: he has been down a harder road. In "Something's Wrong," which he wrote under the influence of New York City, he sings to himself...