Word: beamish
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
Someone finally had to say it: New York City is not quite as dangerous as Johnny Carson makes it out to be in his monologues. On the other hand, things are not as beamish in the Big Apple as Director Paul Mazursky would have them seem in this all too agreeable fable about a Soviet circus saxophonist who suddenly decides to defect from his touring troupe when his previously apolitical mind is blown by the capitalist splendors of Bloomingdale...
Monday, January 9 MR. TERRIFIC (CBS, 8-8:30 p.m.). Stanley Beamish (Stephen Strimpell) is a meek service-station operator until he takes a "power pill" developed by the Government's Bureau of Secret Projects. Premiere...