Word: boyishly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their relationships and establishing their mutual loyalties and power differences, often violently. Donny (Ron Ritchell) operates the shop and serves as a protective father figure to Bobby (Phillip Patrone), the simple-minded idiot who repeats and forgets and seems mostly incapable of thought. With his awkward walks and intimidated, boyish cringing, Patrone's Bobby is convincing and real. Donny, whose intimacy with Bobby suggests a homosexual relationship, patiently tolerates Bobby's incompetency and continually offers him constructive advice, though, of course, to no avail...
There is a jolt of deja vu right at the opening of Paul McCartney Up Close. It comes when the boyish ex-Beatle walks onstage and waves to the throng of cheering fans at New York City's Ed Sullivan Theater -- the same theater where ! the Beatles made their American TV debut on Feb. 9, 1964. "We didn't even know who Ed Sullivan was when we got here," McCartney recalls in one of the reflective segments interspersed between songs. "But that was part...
...taxes and spending that face Clinton and the country. And it also allowed Clinton to present himself in a flattering light: attentive, whip-smart and lip-bitingly empathetic; the reading glasses perched soberly at the end of his bulbous nose lent a touch of presidential gravitas to his boyish looks...
...problem facing Eddie Murphy, 31, as he awaits this week's release of Boomerang, his first film in two years. From the moment in 1980 when he burst onto Saturday Night Live, Murphy had the audience's eye. More, he had their affection; not just his talent but his boyish good nature won him that. And because comic charisma radiated through the characters he played on SNL, Murphy was able to jump from TV-sketch artist to big-screen draw. He took two roles Richard Pryor had rejected, in 48 HRS. and Trading Places, and overtook Pryor...
...tall man with twinkling eyes, an impish grin and a boyish exuberance, Bill joined TIME's Los Angeles bureau in 1957, not long after graduating from Occidental College and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. He opened a bureau for us in Anchorage in 1958 and later served as bureau chief in Nairobi and New Delhi. He was for many years a senior writer in the World section and, since 1989, a senior editor of our International editions...