Word: tomboys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fifth generation of a prosperous family in Independence, Mo., Elizabeth Wallace Truman grew up a blue-eyed, blond-curled tomboy. She could bat a ball as far as any boy in the neighborhood and was better than any at mumblety-peg. She met her future husband when he was six and she was five and he always said he fell in love at that moment. They did not marry until 29 years later, partly because her mother opposed this boy of no "family" and sparse prospects. Engaged just before Harry left for World War I, they wed on his return...
...after Libby (Dinah Manoff) appears, with no advance notice. Libby, 19, is the daughter Herb had deserted when he left New York after a divorce. A tomboy sort, wearing green-bordered knee socks and walking boots, Libby has trekked across the country to find out what her father is like. She suffers instant disenchantment. Dressed in seedy duds with a baseball cap glued to his head, Herb is not at all the David Niven type, with pipe, Great Danes, and book-lined living room, that Libby had envisioned...
...appearing together in this comedy about sexual discovery at summer camp, McNichol and O'Neal demand that audiences compare them. Both actresses are at a transition point, just past their mid-teens, and both have well-tailored parts. McNichol plays a tomboy on the brink of womanhood-a character patterned after her role of Buddy on TV's Family. O'Neal is a precocious rich girl who seems designed to resemble her public persona as Ryan's daughter. In different ways, each performance is fascinating. McNichol, who has had little big-screen experience (The End), proves...