"Chancer," Dulebohn says, "really needed a boy".
The track's defiant sampled refrain, 'I need a man/ Don't need a boy" captures the unsettling atmosphere perfectly.
On learning that he can, indeed, handle a bicycle well she issues an instruction: "We need a boy for Saturday.
At 3 ½, he was too young for Irish dance school, so he began training at another school (at no cost, because it needed a boy).
I was born in Dallas, Texas, and I started dancing at 14 because some girls I knew needed a boy to be the solider in The Nutcracker.
Rolling her eyes at the boy-crazy antics of one of the girls in "Wet Side Story," Ms. Mitchell's character asks, "Why does she need a boy to be happy?" (The answer: "Because it's 1962").
They are the equivalents of servants: it's all been mechanised so you don't need a boy to turn the lights on any more, you just press an electric switch.
When they needed a boy they gave William his first professional acting job.
"Other remarks like, 'It's because you're a girl,' or 'We need a boy to be partners with this girl so she's not lost,' are fairly frequent in the classroom," she said.
By night, I'll be working at this new night club called Plato's Retreat — perfect for a classics major like me! Though I'm not sure why a night club needs a "squeegee boy".
