In a few weeks, when I get around to a column on Cole Porter and "De-lovely," I'll surely be limning, and humming, the songs Porter wrote for "Kiss Me, Kate.
The word for this, derived from medieval illuminating of manuscripts, was "limning.
Here, though, limning the attempts of FBI agent Reeves to infiltrate Swayze's beach-bum bank gang, Bigelow often forsakes her wits.