Word: tomboys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...look back to those days and wonder what the dads devoted to Little League and their sons' football were thinking. Didn't they feel slighted that their daughters weren't in on the fun, not to mention getting their characters built? I was a tomboy, and my father spent countless hours playing catch with me. But he never expected that there would be organized softball for girls. Of course, there was a part of him that overworried about my infrastructure. Girls have babies, after all! When my brother got a detached retina playing tackle, my parents didn't blanch...
...this is strong, supple entertainment, not a girlish cartoon in the style of The Little Mermaid, in which a girl becomes a woman. Here, a girl becomes a man. Mulan is the only child of a dutiful man tied to tradition. "I know my place," he tells his rebellious tomboy of a daughter. "It is time you learned yours." Her place, it turns out, is at the head of a ragtag platoon fighting Shan-Yu's Huns. This woman warrior will prove that the art of war is the smart of war, that one wins by cunning, not strength...
Well, look out below. The ponytailed tomboy queen of the downhill is back, running on Picabo Standard Time. A human cannonball at 5 ft. 7 in. and 158 lbs., she recovered from her injury about twice as fast as most people would have. But most people don't have Olympic gold as the top item on their list of unfinished business. Street has lately zoomed close to her world-beating form, posting a fourth-place finish in a World Cup downhill at Cortina, Italy. But her comeback took a scary detour in a downhill last Saturday at Are, Sweden, when...
...memorable instance walking into a store to buy an umbrella and walking out with a toy machine gun. By second grade, she had come to suspect she would fit in better as a boy. But her doctors insisted that these feelings were perfectly normal, that she was just a tomboy. "I thought I was a freak or something," John told Diamond and Sigmundson in interviews conducted...
...Riff, Tony's best friend and the leader of the Jets. Dusty Thomson is charming. In "Cool," he handles the tricky melody and the non-sense syllables with real grace redeeming what is perhaps the musical's closest approach to absurdity. Tracy Pizzo swaggers nicely as Anybody's, the tomboy who just wants to be one of the boys...