Word: boyish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DERN BEGINS merrily but uninterestingly, engaging in Yellen's witless but stubbornly persistent banter. He gets to be boyish and lewd and folksy, to plead and be charmingly self-deprecating, to do lots of nightclub imitations (accents were Lewis's specialty), to get drunk and be irrepressibly untactful, exposing the hypocrisy of others, to despair and age and writhe in agony. Dern does well, especially considering he's been off stage for 19 years, but the quality that makes him special, that sometimes seems too intense for the big screen, is imperceptible on stage. You'd think that his body...
...Michelle wins, her gray-haired, boyish-looking attorney stands to earn as much as $500,000 for his efforts. Grateful divorcees have been known to reward Mitchelson well: in one 1974 case that was worth $13 million to his client, Mitchelson got a fee of $1.25 million. The son of a schoolteacher and a building contractor, Mitchelson won a football scholarship to the University of Oregon, got his legal training at Southwestern University Law School in Los Angeles, and started out specializing in criminal and personal injury cases. He first gained attention in 1963 by winning a major right...
...that, is she going to win the Senate seat from New York, defeating the boyish Republican, Rick Lazio? My guess is yes, she will...
Dennis Kucinich, 32, Cleveland's boyish, impetuous mayor, was angrier than usual. "This is the politics of insanity!" he shouted at the city council in his high-pitched voice. "You participated in the murder of the city...
Most days Dr. Bui, 44, a slight, shy man with a boyish cowlick, is up by 6 a.m. and on his way in his 1975 Ford Granada to Chicot Memorial Hospital in Lake Village, Ark., 35 miles away. By 10 a.m. he is back in his clinic...