Word: liquorish
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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...