Word: mousey
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...ping up off desks, that mirrors suddenly break for no reason at all, that windows have a way of slamming shut without anyone's touching them. For Carrie possesses the power of telekinesis, the ability to animate objects and make them obey her will. In short, beneath that mousey exterior, that shy desire simply to be accepted, a terrible power lurks, waiting to be called forth...
Golden-Oldies. On ABC in recent months, a viewer could renew acquaintance with all kinds of golden-oldie situations. There was Kirk Douglas playing a worm turned psychopathic killer in Mousey; Robert Gulp as a bourgeois daddy forced to defend suburban hearth and home from a predatory adolescent gang in Outrage; Gulp again as one of a group of men who must work while their women anxiously wait in Houston, We 've Got a Problem (namely a space shot gone awry); Gloria Swanson doing a dotty old lady thing with her friends the Killer Bees; Natalie Wood and Robert...
...office of mousey psychiatrist Dr. Prentice (David Natzler), the play juggles the three recurrent themes of sex, madness and mistaken identity in a farcical manner which grows tedious before the close of the first...
This time there is only one person in the culdesac, a newly successful English movie star named Annabel Chris topher. Though neither pretty ("a peaky face and mousey hair") nor clever ("a deep core of stupidity that thrives on the absence of a looking-glass"), she projects well-bred sexiness on the screen. In the hands of Luigi Leopardi, a chimerical Roman director, she becomes "the English Lady-Tiger." The public image is painstakingly built up by the movie company, and inevitably it begins to seep into Annabel's psyche. Her husband Frederick, an intelligent, surly...
...those around him. Joey never seems subject to the ideal of constancy which the romantic mind pursues all the more diligently as the improbability of attaining it increases, In renouncing Joey at the end of the musical, Vera Simpson gains immensely in moral stature as Joey diminishes. Linda, or Mousey, who has not learned the lesson of coping with irresponsible charm, remains alone and monetarily bereft of any spiritual sustenance...