Suffice it to say it requires the introduction of a new character -- the hotel manager, Oscar Fritchie, whom John Ellison Conlee makes into a scene stealer with his bashful, drunk-on-show-business antics -- and results in a series of satisfying role reversals.
The Los Angeles Times described the Christmas scene: "For a famous detective, Speriglio cut a bit of a mousy figure in build, curly hair, a gold bracelet on his wrist and an almost bashful smile on his lips.
Their son, Edward, my grandfather, sat in a small chair in front of Mollie, wearing trousers, a button-down shirt, a bow tie, and a bashful look on his face compared to his father's self-assured, stoic one.
Curiously, he is not the most bashful person on the fashion block.
On Monday Swann Galleries in New York sold a cel of Snow White giggling with Bashful for $10,800, and on Nov. 24 Christie's in London is offering a sketch of hostile trees trying to ensnare Snow White (the estimate is about $11,000) and a surreal proposal for a purplish checkerboard dance floor at Cinderella's ball (about $8,000).
When we talked on the phone last week, Kwes's younger brother interrupted us to announce that one of his new tracks – the aptly named "Bashful" – was playing on the radio.
Stripped down to underwear (this treatment is not for the bashful) you stand on a floor covering while you are spray-painted a healthy sun-kissed brown.
The analysts were unusually bashful about speaking on the record, however, out of fear that they might wind up with someone insignificant next year.
Mr. Smith most recently managed the unsuccessful United States Senate bid of former Representative Bob Franks, whose campaign was almost single-minded in its demand that Jon S. Corzine release his own personal tax returns, and was not bashful in speculating on what unsavory investments Mr. Corzine might be trying to hide.
