Word: boying
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...prepubescent groupies and siccing bodyguards on bar patrons seemed to be their idea of a social life, we figured that was a matter for the judicial system, not The Harvard Crimson Moral Police. And if they wanted to project a hypocritical holier-than-thou, just-say-no, nice-boy-next-door image to their adoring cult of 12-year-old girls, we weren't going to blow their cover...
...father told me, F.H. made no effort to collect debts. He had never been much good at retrieving his money, which was odd for a man who in one lifetime used up all his family's financial-brilliance genes for several generations to come. While he was still a boy learning English in Michigan, he lent money he had saved for college to a friend -- a Yankee, the town history reports -- who skipped town. No matter; he went on lending and giving away money, and there wasn't much left when he died...
...young Kurosawa, is introduced to the idea of mortality. On a day both sunny and rainy, his mother warns him not to leave the house. In such weather foxes hold their weddings, and they take a terrible vengeance on those who spy on their secret ceremonies. Of course, the boy must see this woodland spectacle (wonderfully realized by masked dancers) and is himself seen. His mother then tells him that if he hopes to live, he must beg the creatures' forgiveness. The episode closes with the child in search of the rainbow, under which the animals are said to live...
...FANTASTICKS. Three decades after it opened off-Broadway (for 12,000-plus performances and still counting), the boy-meets-girl charmer starts a national tour at Wolf Trap, just outside Washington, in a spruced-up version starring Robert Goulet...
...dressed in a natty business suit, not a military uniform. He smiled and tousled the hair of a young boy named Stuart Lockwood, asking him what he had eaten for breakfast (cornflakes and milk) and marveling at how the lad fared better than some Iraqi children. Talking cheerfully to a tense group of British hostages, he presented himself as a benign and misunderstood leader who had no choice but to act truculently...