Word: beamish
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...added motion is essential, since the plot is mired in a clicheland where the journey through life is so predictable that it seems exactly like going nowhere. It begins with Wedding-Night Jitters. Yes, the new groom is frightened back into his pants. Morning-After Bliss finds the couple beamish and breaking into a delightful soft-shoe dance in their bare feet. Comes the nine-month dawn, or Counting the Contractions. "This has been going on for millions and millions of years," coos Mary Martin reassuringly. Preston, looking as if he were in protracted labor pains of his own, replies...
...might be more affecting if Ruth Gordon had not made Mrs. Lord just as odious as her Goneril-and-Regan duo of daughters. As every contemporary playgoer knows, the family is an heir-conditioning unit: bitches beget bitches. The denouement is embarrassing, as Mrs. Lord marries one of those beamish Balkan boys with a rich grandmother fixation...
HALF A SIXPENCE is a kind of cut-rate, cockney Hello, Dolly! Tommy Steele is an infectiously beamish entertainer, Onna White's dances burst forth like spring blossoms, and the show's style is to woo rather than...
THEATER On Broadway HALF A SIXPENCE is a kind of cut-rate cockney Hello, Dolly! Tommy Steele is an infectiously beamish entertainer, Onna White's dances burst forth like spring blossoms, and their style is to woo rather than...
Carson did not easily come by his vocation. Once he worked in an office-the Income Tax Office, of all inappropriate things. It could not last. His boss was a man called Beamish of whom he writes: "I was frightened of Beamish as I was frightened of all elderly administrators, officials, policemen, colonels and judges. There is a perpetual net for the butterflies. They can catch you for arson, witchcraft, sodomy, soliciting, contempt, vagrancy. They can prove you without means of support, unborn or dead. They can bury you in unconsecrated ground. You have to fly very hard to keep...