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...Clinton kept dropping by to flirt. When he "got too chatty with somebody, usually someone with a large chest, a couple of the older women would see she got moved," says the aide. That's what happened to Lewinsky. Sources say it was Lieberman who arranged to have the coltish intern transferred to the Pentagon after Lieberman concluded she was spending too much time in the West Wing...
McMurtry has a fine time with youthful damnfoolishness, and so does the reader. The young Rangers are randy and daft, and so coltish around women that, as in Lonesome Dove, they refer to sexual congress as a "poke." Call and McCrae survive by dumb luck, though it's not clear by adventure's end that either has learned a dime's worth of sense. In fact, they are still...
Only briefly does Beauty become affecting, when Belle and her captor, a prince transformed into a sort of buffalo, fumblingly get to know each other. Terrence Mann finds coltish gawkiness in a lumbering leviathan and suggests a new reason why the myth has endured. When the beast stops slurping and growling and starts thinking of cleanliness and manners, he evokes the civilizing process boys go through in adolescence as they discover girls. Mostly, though, the characters seem even simpler when played by actors than they did as cartoons. The costumes that help them resemble a candelabrum or a clock also...
...stooped to watch coltish first-years frolicking in the Yard during last weekend's reprieve from winter. Perched on the cusp of real accomplishment, they were insolently unconscious of their power. This twentysomething resolved to savor this place and time. It won't be coming my way again...
...proud public man, used to cosseting. Candida's fail-safe feminist speech enlivens the otherwise kittenish and cloying Broadway debut of Mary Steenburgen, an Oscar winner for Melvin and Howard. But the real joy is watching fellow film star Robert Sean Leonard (Dead Poets Society, Swing Kids) as her coltish adolescent admirer. He brings quiet reality to the most extravagant talk and gawkily comic gestures and makes one think the play should be called, after him, Marchbanks...