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It commands the sort of attention and fan loyalty that high school football does in Texas and some other parts of the U.S. Glossy magazines in Japan are devoted to following school-boy ball players.

Baseball Helps Japanese Town Heal Gordon Fairclough 2011

The collection dates back to Swift's early work from the 1970s, and even includes essays written at Cambridge University (on Shakespeare, Donne, Tolstoy, and Joyce) and a composition on Hamlet written at Dulwich College in the early 1960s (the school-boy essay is marked 'excellent', although a reference to T S Eliot is marked by his teacher as 'terribly snooty'!)

Graham Swift's archive acquired by the British Library 2009

As you all watch the glassy liquid with tight, silent concentration that your brothers' teachers would envy, I frame the picture through my camera lens, hoping to catch a breaking smile, your cherubic beauty brimming between your siblings' school-boy seriousness.

Sands In Time by Julie Noble Julie Noble 2011

If I remember correctly, they're rescued by the adults and in record time revert back to their school-boy deferential ways.

Rabid Reads for BBW: "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding 2009

I want to be surprised in a giddy school-boy kind of way when I figure out what the next tune to be performed is … and not already know all of the musical numbers from the internet.

'Glee' previews for tonight: Is there such a thing as too many teasers? | EW.com 2009

Sure, he had a school-boy crush on Mary Jane for, like, ever, but it's when he met and cultivated a relationship with Gwen that he felt what an honest and true and real relationship was for the first time.

Update: Spider-Man, Spider-Man, Does Whatever a Reboot Can « FirstShowing.net 2010

The actor, perhaps mistaking real life for a movie, stood up and confronted Viraj, rounded on him as best he could in the narrow aisle, insulting him with a litany of school-boy phrases.

Fifty-One 2010

F for Fake (1973), also a film about (male) authorship, authenticity, and the value of art -- as warranted (or not) by modernist masters like Howard Hughes, Pablo Picasso, and Orson Welles -- runs intellectual, artistic, and charlatan circles around the pomo school-boy thrills of wheat-pasting and the endless whirlpool of appropriation.

Alexandra Juhasz: Banksy v Welles 2010

Ferrell told CNN: "He's arrogant with a school-boy attitude, and combine that with the fact that he is commander in chief -- and, unfortunately, it's very funny." print share

Joe Biden 2009

Ferrell told CNN: "He's arrogant with a school-boy attitude, and combine that with the fact that he is commander in chief -- and, unfortunately, it's very funny." print share

RNC 2009