Word: beamish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...happy ending, that good-natured spirit carries one over some of the logical lacunae of the script by Adam Scheinman and Robert Kuhn. But not quite past the presence of Caan. It was only 27 years ago that his crazy volatility ignited The Godfather. Now he's almost beamish as a wary fixer. He's still funny, but his new characterization, like the success of The Sopranos and Analyze This, reminds us how quickly we have converted palpable menace to pure ethnic comedy. Is this progress? Not really. But in the context of Mickey Blue Eyes it's easy...
...Ronald Beamish, 69, visiting from England, went over to Chestnut and felt for a pulse; it was failing. "You'll be all right," he said. "You'll be all right." Over on the Senate side of the Capitol, Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee, a heart surgeon in his former life, got word of the shootings and raced across to the scene as medics poured in from the ambulances outside. He worked to resuscitate first one victim, then another. "I was really just focused on keeping their hearts and lungs moving," he said. Gibson was hustled out to a helicopter...
...made to function in harmony, there is hope, he thinks, for a world riven by romantic discord. Well, why not? A little dollop of Here Comes Mr. Jordan or Stairway to Heaven never hurt anyone--except that these seraphs have a mean streak unknown to their more beamish movie predecessors...
With her ample jowls and round, beamish face, she looks a bit like Benny Hill--without, of course, the late British comic's leering smirk. Her voice is high-pitched, nasal and a trifle slurred, her frequent laugh a piercing cackle. At a time when some Roman Catholic nuns wear discreet designer clothes, she is resolutely old-fashioned in her ankle-length brown robe and hair-concealing white scapular. The Catholicism she espouses is old-fashioned as well, redolent with devotion to the Virgin Mary and the Latin-rite mass, deeply rooted in the Baltimore Catholicism of the 1940s. Some...
...infinitely funny, in Robbins' variation on his performance as the dopey, fireballing pitcher in Bull Durham. Thought is for him a face-scrunching agony. Ideas -- rare occurrences -- render his countenance beatifically beamish. But since life is mostly utterly unpredictable to him, he is atwitch with dangerously unmediated impulses. Williams is his opposite, a man racing to keep up with a runaway brain, yet striving, hopelessly, to project an air of normality...