Word: boyish
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...Random House; $2.75) is written in a language that bears a deceptive resemblance to English but is actually Broadwayese. In Novelist Alexander's hands, it is a blunt instrument that he uses to hammer out the unhappy saga of Waldo. Waldo is a psychopathic killer who gets a boyish kick out of playing ticktacktoe with a knife on the bodies of the ladies he dispatches. It is perfectly clear at the very beginning that Waldo is going to be caught by Hero Bart Hardin, editor of the Broadway Times, a journal devoted to horses and hoofers. On page eleven...
...Audrey Hepburn, who, as the mermaid of Jean Giraudoux's rather waterlogged Ondine, proved a sprite that never was on sea or land. Equally near (though never under) the water, Shirley Booth was the principal lure of By the Beautiful Sea, while France's Jeanmaire brought something boyish, girlish and impish to the lumpish Girl in Pink Tights...
...Millerism. Sinatra, now 36 and still a skinny 135 Ibs., thinks he knows just what happened since the early '405 when bobby-soxers were curling their toes at his boyish glissando. Says he: 'I was weaned on the best popular music ever written. When I was bumming around with Tommy Dorsey and Harry James it was all good. Guys like Mercer and Berlin and Hammerstein were writing their best. In those days a singer was just another guy, and the one-nighters, listening to the band by the hour-this is the experience a singer needs. You learned...
...Benton's totem pole is President Dwight Robbins, an ex-diving champion who splashes boyish charm over well-heeled alumnae. "Not to have given him what he asked, they felt, would have been to mine the bridge that bears the train that carries the supply of this year's Norman Rockwell Boy Scout calendars." The dragon of the story is Gertrude Johnson, a novelist who teaches a creative-writing course. "For her there were two species: writers and people; and the writers were really people, and the people weren...
...chewing gum, rubbing his nose and garbling his syntax. Bob Crosby is a hands-in-pockets man, but he also shoots his eyebrows, ducks his head winningly and rocks on heel and toe. His cast struggles to be homespun, and his young singer, Allan Copeland, is loaded with boyish humility...