Word: schoolgirlisms
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After watching the debate, I am convinced that the lady from Queens is not qualified to be one heartbeat away from the presidency. She looked like a schoolgirl alongside Bush, a distinguished and experienced statesman...
...keep her farm and family, Lange hangs back from any real confrontation. She goes through the motions but her heart just isn't in it. When she questions her son about a condom she has found in his room, for example, her voice has the soft cadences of a schoolgirl rather than the stern tone of an angry mother...
...Army barracks and boarding schools. At the beginning of the finest of them, Hardly Ever, an adolescent notes gloomily that his rugby teammates are "asthmatics, fatsos, spastics every one" and forlornly lusts after the heroine in The Rape of the Lock. By the end, he is chastely wooing a schoolgirl, while maddening his chums with lubricious tales of his "conquest." The pleasure of such stories lies in their refusal of violent climaxes. Exasperations, after all, last far longer than explosions, while survivors tend to be funnier than casualties, and often much sadder...
...negative, a visiting journalist from the Winston-Salem Journal insisted, "Advancement for the Negro can best come gradually." His opponent, Thurgood Marshall, went on to prove him wrong in the year of my father's graduation, successfully arguing before the Supreme Court on behalf of a Topeka schoolgirl named Linda Brown...
...promises to be something of a Star Woz, with veterans of that more modern epic creating special effects and producing the movie for Walt Disney. ("Toto, I really don't think we're in Kansas any more.") Dorothy will be played by Fairuza Balk, 9, a Vancouver schoolgirl who emigrated to Canada from her native California. There will be a host of new characters, including Tik Tok the robot and Billina the talking hen. Sounding already like a seasoned pro, Balk is not brought up short in the least by the prospect of filling Garland's ruby...