Word: lickerish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...better performances, Taylor makes Kate seem the ideal bawd of Avon-a creature of beauty with a voice shrieking howls and imprecations. Whenever Liz strains at the Elizabethan, the camera shifts to Burton, who catches the cadences of iambic pentameter with inborn ease. As the lickerish and liquorish Petruchio, Burton pursues his Kate with a weary, beery smile that promises temptation and trouble. An inspired chase across rooftops and into piles of fleece establishes him as a kind of King Leer, the supreme embodiment of a raffish comic hero...
...Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum was one of the hottest burlesque shows that ever hit Broadway. It had a grossly libidinous libretto snippeted out of the plays of Plautus, and lickerish leerics that read like Pompeian graffiti. Above all, it had a huge round Zero named Mostel, who wore a fingertip tunic the size of a pup tent and went tippety-skipping about the stage like a bull walrus in drag...
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round just fills the space between a frisky title and a tricky TV-comedy ending, but doesn't fill it with any revels that require a viewer's complete attention. The movie's hero is a lickerish, hipsterish con artist named Kotch, played by James Coburn in a flaccid reprise of his role as Our Man Flint. In prison, Kotch cranks up a steal-a-million scheme, a testament to the faith of moviemakers that a tale so often told must be good for something-even if it is no longer...
...literary underworld abounds with stories about great writers who were also great pornographers. Mark Twain amused himself and friends with outhouse humor; so did Benjamin Franklin. Passages of Swift are brutally obscene. Byron and Swinburne both dipped their pens in blue ink, while even Thackeray could line out a lickerish limerick. Perhaps the most famous respectable smutmaster is Robert Burns, whose collection of bawdy Scottish verse has been circulating in more or less clandestine versions for more than 150 years. The collection as now published is as close to the original as scholarship is likely to achieve, bar ring...