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...boisterous affection and puckish candor. From the moment he capers onto the stage, he seems infinitely more alive than everyone around him. No matter how thwarted or downcast, he never loses his vision of life as adventure rather than mere existence. But as his admirers gradually realize, the very boyish traits that make Platonov so appealing also render him irresponsible: unlike the safe and predictable dullards around him, he has simply never grown up. In the funniest yet most poignant scene, he feverishly debates whether to stay faithful to his wife (Kate Burton) or sneak off to join a handsome...
LOOK, I'M A YANKEE fan--have been since long before most of you were born. I have benefited from Boston's suffering (most, after all, for Yankee gain) all my life. I reacted with boyish glee when, in 1949, Boston faced the Yanks one game up with two to go--and my guys won both for the pennant. And, although (honest to God) I didn't want Yaz to make the last out by popping to third, I decided that Bucky Dent was the greatest living American one afternoon in early October, 1978. The Red Sox, in other words...
...GRANDFATHER, father and uncle are members of the Owl Club. There is a photograph of the Owl Club of 1955 in our family living room. When visitors examine the picture, we ask them to identify the man standing next to my father. They stare, smile, and recognize the boyish face of Teddy Kennedy...
Bond, who still has the boyish smile and laid-back cool that made him a celebrity in the '60s, is the glamour candidate. He is the clear favorite of the upwardly mobile young blacks, known as buppies, whose BMWs decorate the lot of his sprawling campaign headquarters. Cicely Tyson came down for a fund raiser, and so did the Temptations; Bill Cosby and Ted Kennedy have sent checks. Polished and witty, Bond has an air of bemused nonchalance; like a horse who shies from hurdles, he has backed away from seeking higher office or tougher challenges in the past...
...over the fence, again. The 75-year-old man is hitting home runs. Winning a lopsided vote on a tax-reform plan that others had airily dismissed. Turning Congress around on the contras. Preparing to stand with a revitalized Miss Liberty on the Fourth of July. He grins his boyish grin and bobs his head in the way he has and trots around the bases...