Word: boyish
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...charge Beatty with vanity and egomania, and a little misleading. He is actually Hollywood's softest, most self-effacing romantic romantic actor. Even playing macho-tough, as in Bonnie and Clyde or McCabe and Mrs. Miller, he's careful to show the boyish vulnerability underneath. Small-scale and unaggressive, he can't sustain a picture alone, so he surrounds himself with high-voltage actors and situations, and he counts on the audience to look to him for relief. In John Reed, Beatty found a figure ideally suited to his own quiet narcissism--a modern saint, political innocent and martyr...
...millions of people around the world, he was, quite simply, the living symbol of Israel. With his distinctive black eye patch and round boyish face, he was instantly recognizable in any country, in any kind of uniform, even in disguise, which he donned from time to time in the service of his nation's diplomacy. Soldier, statesman and swashbuckling hero of Israel's wars with its Arab neighbors, Moshe Dayan occupied center stage in Israel for more than 30 years. By the time he died last week of a heart attack at 66, Dayan had largely outgrown...
...Friday nights the crowds along Fulton and Nostrand avenues ebb and flow like a tide. Dudes are gambling up and down the streets. The sweet smell of reefer is everywhere, and wine bottles are passed around. Up the block, twelve-year-old hookers teeter on high heels, flouncing their boyish hips. There are drunken brawls, skin-and-bone addicts overdosing, police sirens screaming and the rattle of the el in the distance...
...years to concentrate exclusively on his research. A certain New York cynicism never has left Gould--he fidgets, jokes, interrupting others and even himself to question, explain or wonder. Emphatically unwilling to rest on his already considerable accomplishments and security, Gould consistently transcends the cynicism to reveal an almost boyish enthusiasm for the things he studies. Perhaps he summed up his philosophy best in the essay he wrote celebrating Mickey Mouse's 50th birthday. "In short," Gould concluded, "we, like Mickey, never grow up although we, alas, grow old. Best wishes to you. Mickey, for your next half-century...
...Fred Silverman saga unfolded at the corporate level last week, a play-within-a-play held the stage at NBC News. The theme was strikingly similar: Will he stay or will he go? The protagonist: boyish Tom Brokaw, 41, for five years the button-bright host of the Today show...