Word: boyish
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...actually gained a whole pound were true. Insisted Twiggy: "I'm exactly what I always was, 92 lbs." Whatever she weighs, the 19-year-old British model has made herself over so that she looks almost feminine. She has traded her body stocking and "all those flattening boyish things" for a real girl's bra, now wears more or less normal makeup instead of marking her eyes with heavy, horizontal pencil lines. She is letting her hair grow "as long as it'll go, down to me feet." In Manhattan to begin a promotion tour for Yardiev...
...Locke, in her first movie, warrants the added attention the screenplay gives her part. When she tells her younger brother, who has pooled his money with his friends to buy fireworks, "Your syndicate is like Communism," she sounds just like the girl your roommate met from Ole Miss. Her boyish profile complements her naivete. Even her seduction scene--watch her shoulder cringe as she surrenders herself to her new boyfriend--seems right...
...drive out into the country and go exploring in the woods. He has a pilot's license, a brown belt in judo. Sometimes, during a dinner at a friend's house, he will excuse himself and stand on his head in the corner for five minutes. Exuberantly boyish, he likes to slide down banisters or vault over platform railings to shake hands. He drinks only moderately-wine with meals, an occasional aperitif or whisky. But he despises smoking, which he looks upon, according to one friend, "as the most barbaric habit in the modern world...
THEY pronounce his boyish name with fear and derision or else with adoration and awe. To many enemies, he is more his father's son than his brother's brother. Indeed, it was old Joe himself who observed, "He hates just like I do." By this reckoning, Robert Kennedy is the spoiled dynast, reclaiming the White House as a legacy from the man he regards as a usurper. Yet to many who have worked closely with him, Bobby is like Jack, pragmatic and perceptive, tempered by history. Says Urbanologist Pat Moynihan: "Much has been given him and taken from...
Eberhart's manner is thoroughly boyish, eager, self-confident. He makes no attempt to suppress his enthusiasm or the pleasure with which he remembers all the "adventures...