Word: childish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...location scene in Sicily, he performed a Communion rite for 300 extras. Recalls Reeve: "My mother said, 'Call me if you convert.' That didn't happen, but I developed enormous respect for the ritual I was performing." Does this mean he has put away childish things like playing comic-book characters? Lois Lane and other fans of Krypton's finest surviving hunk can relax. Reeve will shortly pull on his red-and-blue undies and rev his wires for takeoff in Superman...
Psychologized baseball produces the following shared experience as a manager assesses his season: "After talking with the pitchers, we agreed that pitching less hard was their way of punishing themselves for past losses and perpetuating their self-image as 'bad' pitchers. We agreed that this was childish behavior, and we tried to write a new scenario, or game plan, in which the umpire was cast in the role of persecutor and a hard pitch in the strike zone would 'hurt' him. Unfortunately we did not include the catcher (whom I'll call 'Milt...
...very good. The pieces are taken almost verbatim from his television scripts and they don't survive the translation from speech to print. Without Rooney himself delivering the lines, and without the clever visual displays he usually presents on the show, the essays seem thin, silly, and childish. A written essay inevitably comes under closer scrutiny than a spoken one, and thus must carry more substance. Where the spoken word is fleeting, the written word must bear the pressure of close reading. Rooney makes this very point in his preface to the book, and it seems clear that he worried...
...more damaging is the childish ease with which these two penetrate the conspiracy. A careless phone call here, a too-trusting security guard there, and all is revealed to them. If these international manipulators are so smart, how come they leave the notebook containing the secret computer code lying around where anyone can read it? Can we really be expected to believe that the conspirators would bring down the financial system-an act as inconveniencing to them as to the rest of the world-just because Jane and Kris (but no one else) have caught on to them...
...know is the person at Fenwick," she says. "When I'm talking about acting, I feel I'm talking about somebody else. Acting is a nice childish profession?pretending you're someone else, and at the same time selling your own self." After a hearty Fenwick dinner of meat, fresh vegetables and a homemade pie, the company may retire to her brother-in-law's house to watch one of Hepburn's old films. The star herself is not unduly impressed: "I don't feel any particular connection with that poor creature up on the screen. I'd rather watch...