Word: boyish
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...story opens, things do not look bright for May Alto. Harry, a second husband with the boyish charm and mental age of a 14-year-old, has just left her for "...this girl." Subsisting on codeine and Seconal, she is nursing an arm slashed in a mugging for $12 and a cheap tape recorder. She is the sole supporter of three children going through various phases of adolescent trauma. A ghostwriter, May writes books to order, bringing glory to a slew of semi-literate literary celebrities in return for modest cash rewards. To keep herself entertained, she intertwines the stories...
...right stuff for an astronaut involves a definite lack of depth, which isn't to say these men are fools. Rather, they move as with blinders, interested almost solely in the fulfillment of their boyish dreams to be the fastest man on earth, or as Gordon Cooper phrases it, to be "the hotdog man himself." The proprietress of the restaurant on Edwards Air Force Base even promises a prize for the winner of one of their games. Says she, "The first fella that breaks the sound barrier's gonna get a free steak with all the trimmin...
...talk is interrupted by an important telephone call. Amin answers and listens glumly. Haddad is at the other end of the room on an extension. He too is expressionless. The shells are still exploding outside as the President finally excuses himself, moving to the door with an almost boyish gait. It is midnight, but there is still work...
...current champion, CBS's intense, adrenal Dan Rather, 51, will be matched, starting on Labor Day, against NBC's boyish Tom Brokaw, 43, who at present is a coanchor. At ABC, which has had a three-cornered format, executives are expected to announce this week that elegant, Canada-born Peter Jennings, 45, will be the central figure of a revamped one-anchor show. Contends Van Gordon Sauter, president of CBS News: "A one-anchor format provides continuity, more time for stories and less fragmentation of viewers' attention...
...similarly throughout this "romantic comedy," the humor is very much divorced from the romance--a division that works to enhance both elements of the film. The tension between his boyish high school existence and his mature sexual involvement focuses Jonathan to reconcile his two halves; eventually he becomes both more adult among friends and more lighthearted with Skip's mother, Ellen. But because Carlino does not indulge in psychology sleight of hand, making Jonathan's emotional maturation too rapid-fire, he never presents the relationship between the boy and his best friend's mother as more than it could credibly...