Word: schoolboy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impossibly difficult role of Alex in Stanley Kubrick's A Clock-work Orange. In that film he portrayed a character as villainous as Caligula but, mainly through the control of his extraordinary face, he added something exhiliratingly scary to his performance. Alex's eyes were those of a mischievous schoolboy gone insane; he had the face of a demonic baby, a sinister cherub. In Caligula, McDowell's face has become drawn and taut, effectively expressing fiendishness, but little else...
...people. He remains a great mentor for the world in the leadership business." Additional insights came from President Harry Truman, by way of Rosalynn Carter, whom Sidey interviewed for the story. "She had been reading his memoirs and had come up with a favorite quotation: 'Any schoolboy's afterthought is worth more than the forethought of the greatest statesman.' I think she was trying to tell me something, but with a smile...
...group assembled in the Cabinet room with the President, the Vice President and four Cabinet officers. For the next hour and a half, while Carter took notes in his careful schoolboy handwriting, the executives made their pitches in descending order of company size, beginning with GM Chairman Thomas A. Murphy. They spoke of the need for tax incentives to help customers buy cars and to aid the companies in modernizing, for regulatory relief and for easier credit conditions. Though auto loans were specifically exempted from the Administration's March credit restraints, the President was astonished to hear that money...
When he left Harborfields High School in Greenlawn, N.Y., where he played with twin brother Michael, now completing a fine career as a Brown defenseman, the versatile middie had already established himself as one of the top schoolboy prospects in the nation. College coaches, Harvard's Bob Scalise incuded, predicted that he would make the transition to their game with ease...
...clothes in which young aspirants to the gentry are expected to show up at the better preparatory schools on either side of the Atlantic. The term, however, does little justice to the actual look, which, with imagination and some bullion, does anything but turn a woman into an honorable schoolboy. The clothes are neat, crisp, classic; with various permutations, they can be romantic and understatedly sexy. The time-honored Fair Isle sweater, for example, now comes in bright, balletic colors as well as the traditional pastel yellows and blues. Madras jackets and Bermuda shorts now sport divers hues unknown...