Word: boyishly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about everything "except restore virginity." Turning to the topic of the President's health, Yavlinsky wanted to know if "Kremlin" orders would now have to be described as decisions by "the Central Clinical Hospital." It was just the sort of display of intelligence and humor that have made the boyish-looking economist the darling of Moscow's liberal intellectuals ever since he first gained prominence in 1990 as the author of a never-to-be-realized 500-Day Plan for the economic makeover of Russia...
...This is the one place in the world where you can do this," says the still boyish Gardner, who was first elected secretary of state in 1976 at the age of 28. He keeps a scrapbook of all the candidates, containing pictures of himself posing with everyone from Gary Hart (who in 1984 came with a plastic bag filled with a thousand $1 bills) to Georgiana Doerschuck, an elegant widow in a pink Chanel suit who wants to require mothers to stay home with their children. "The little guy who doesn't have a lot of money can still come...
...still being played by Desmond Llewelyn as a cranky English eccentric, still making fountain pens that explode and wristwatches that do more than tell time. He's the last link to the boyish silliness that once animated this series. One wishes him good health and long life, for if, as the closing credits threaten, "James Bond Will Return," they--and we--are going to need...
More perilous still, we see Allen re-writing his tabloid sins at an age (he'll be 60 this year) when he looks like a pensive Rumpelstiltskin; boyish roguery ill suits him. In TV revivals of Broadway farces, he plays crabby geezers: the tourist with tsuris in Don't Drink the Water, a decrepit comic in a new version of The Sunshine Boys. Yet in his films Allen is the Woody of old--or, rather, of young. To Lenny, the raw, vibrant Linda makes Amanda seem stale and shrewish. Bonham Carter (who's a radiant 29 and certainly doesn...
Nabokov liked to shock as well as enchant. A biology professor who suspects his wife of adultery frightens her to death by putting a skeleton in her bed. There is a boyish cruelty similar to Alfred Hitchcock's in many of Nabokov's mock-gothic tales. He was an ardent hunter of clichas and kitsch, and a mischievous parodist of traditional literary forms. The familiar 1952 story Lance sends up science fiction whose "Star tsars, directors of Galactic Unions, are practically replicas of those peppy, red-haired executives in earthy earth jobs." The little-known 1924 tale The Dragon turns...