Word: boyish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kristofferson likes to disparage his own singing ability. Says he: "Good God, anyone who sings my songs sings them better than me." In truth, he caught on quickly as a performer. Lean and bearded, he radiated both a searing sexuality and a boyish vulnerability. That combination was translated into a fast rise in movies. His first, Cisco Pike (1971), about a pop idol down on his luck, merely suggested his film potential. Several more -Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Blume in Love, Alice Doesn 't Live Here Anymore -followed. Last year's A Star Is Born...
...nose up and down convincingly. Leslie Fradkin as Harrison and Joe Pecorino as Lennon rely pretty much on their costumes and gestures for verisimilitude. But Mitch Weissman is a dead ringer for McCartney, not just in his stance and round face, but in the way he captures the pleasantly boyish manner in which Paul went about his stage business. Seated alone at the apron, accompanying himself on guitar, he sings Yesterday in a way that is totally unpretentious and touching...
...Russia. Solzhenitsyn secretly made a recording of Prussian Nights, now available in the West. The author reads the 1,200-line war poem in the declamatory mode favored by many Russian poets, obviously savoring every line. Trochaic tetrameters and thumping end rhymes roll off his tongue. In an unexpectedly boyish baritone he interjects snatches of song, whispers, conversational asides and other special effects that hark back to his teen-age ambition to become an actor. The voice suits the poem. Prussian Nights represents the young Solzhenitsyn, still a decade away from the fine-tuned virtuosity...
Chic Oasis. To compound the problem, the fund's old trustees placed a lot of trust-and money-in a few individuals. At one point, Allen Click, a boyish businessman who controls the Stardust and Fremont casino-hotels in Nevada through Argent Corp., owed $146 million. He has since turned back some California and Texas properties and reduced his obligations to about $90 million. His casinos are being investigated by the Clark County (Las Vegas) district attorney and the Nevada Gaming Control Board following charges that substantial sums were skimmed from the slot machines. La Costa Land Co., which...
...Lindbergh, the romantic soloist who dropped out of the darkness at Paris' Le Bourget Airport 50 years ago this week, may be difficult for the world of 1977 to understand. The minute he completed the first one-man flight across the Atlantic, the 25-year-old aviator, boyish yet reserved, became a hero of the world. He hated to be called "Lucky Lindy" - luck had nothing to do with it, he said, just skill. Yet he had intersected with history at precisely the right moment: technology and public mood conspired to endow Lindbergh with an almost primitive magic...