Word: boyish
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...place where I would kneel,” says Jenkins. “We did 11 dates with them. We were just super brand-new and we were at some gigantic stadium and Adam Clayton walked in with a case of Guinness,” says Jenkins with boyish glee. “Isn’t that great? He walked in with a case of Irish beer, he just walked in, and I was just star-struck to see him...I see The Edge—and they really do call him the Edge—and he goes...
...nearly gunned down as a baby and is, kindly, referred to by one promoter as "a huge pain in the ass." Pit him against the sport's last glamour boy, Oscar De La Hoya, 34, bred tough in East L.A. but now a clean-cut corporate sweetheart whose broad, boyish smile has made millions swoon into his corner. Naturally, his charm has also turned off others who would love a guy like Mayweather to coldcock that grin off his face. De La Hoya, an Olympic gold medalist who has won titles in six weight classes, is the aging underdog...
...Stewart sometimes wears his age awkwardly. He often grabs unsuspecting friends for a dramatic tango across barroom floors. And, like a boyish backpacker, he worries that a long-anticipated camel trek across Afghanistan may seem irresponsible now that he needs to knuckle down to his job (which involves, among other things, raising $45 million to endow his ngo for preserving Afghanistan's heritage, the Turquoise Mountain Foundation). But when it comes to describing the project that so impassions him, he's all statesman: "This is a development project that says 'we respect your traditional culture, and we are going...
...Battered-wife syndrome is now a part of the cultural discourse. What falls outside the new boundaries between the two realms? Is the proliferation of hundreds of Facebook.com groups, for example, solely created to mock “Dumb Bitches” (DBs for short) merely a series of boyish pranks, or do they represent a societally constructed pattern of ways men relate to women who displease them...
...leading candidate to replace Ricke is Rene Obermann, the boyish CEO of T-Mobile, Telekom's fast-growing international mobile phone unit and the fourth-largest wireless carrier in the U.S. Obermann is the candidate preferred by the German government and labor representatives on the supervisory board. But there is some opposition to Obermann's appointment by investors and supervisory board members, who would rather see an outside executive with international experience...