Word: boyish
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...Good Son, the director taps yet another nasty, not entirely uncommon fantasy. What if a child's normal mischievousness -- a compound of forgivable prankishness, a bit of secretiveness, some expectable sibling rivalry -- is not just a boyish phase? What if it is actually the first sprouting of a very bad seed? Meet Henry Evans (Macaulay Culkin). Who would believe that polite, sweet-smiling Henry is actually the devil's spawn? Not his doting parents, who are still grieving over the presumably accidental death of his younger brother. Not his visiting cousin Mark (Elijah Wood), who is also in mourning...
...California sun sparkles through the palm trees. The movie star, her platinum hair shielded from the wind by a scarf, drives up in a turquoise convertible. Her boyfriend, dressed incongruously in suit and tie, leaps into the car with a boyish bounce. "Let's go, Monroe," he chirps. She replies: "Yes, sir, Mr. Attorney General...
After winning a tournament and receiving a large trophy, the victors held a party. On such an occasion many teenagers might get sentimental, but her friends say they have never seen Masako cry. Says classmate Sachiko Takamine: "I'm positive she still has her boyish side. She has become an incredible woman with femininity and masculine strength. She now has the appropriate aura for a princess. She has the wisdom to adapt herself to any environment...
...seemed at times that Koresh was playing with them. His mother had hired a fancy lawyer for him, and just as the feds were deciding they had to move, Koresh was deciding that he was eager to talk. Dick DeGuerin is a renowned defender of infamous Texans, a lean, boyish-looking ex-prosecutor known among defense lawyers as "Clint Eastwood" for rescuing high-profile figures from impossible fixes. He has a gift for winning his clients' trust, and it seemed to be working with Koresh. They talked for hours inside the compound, sharing chicken a la king and apple juice...
...wealthy clubs like the Dodgers and the Red Sox finishing in last place in their divisions with lineups filled with high-price, low-performance malcontents. A small-market club, the Twins, won the World Series in 1987 and 1991. But the architect who built these championship teams, the Twins' boyish general manager, Andy MacPhail, is worried that Minnesota will be hard pressed to compete in the future, even though it just re-signed Kirby Puckett to a $30 million, five-year contract. "The new development," MacPhail warned, "is that large-market teams like Atlanta and Toronto now have both...