When Michael first joined the Street in 1983, his character Kevin Webster was a floppy-fringed,
beetle-browed teenager with a bad moustache and a surly scowl.
Steeped in 127 years of tradition, it has produced some of the biggest characters in the game - from
beetle-browed colossus Martin Johnson to mouthy little irritant Austin 'Leicester Lip' Healey.
Shabnam (
beetle-browed Ashutosh Rana) was seized from privileged parents when hijras blessing the infant realized it, too, was a hermaphrodite.
For those in this camp, Neandertals were a heavy-boned,
beetle-browed variant of H.
The angularity of the brise-soleil irresistibly recalls eyebrows, so from the road below, the building resembles a row of
beetle-browed robots peering intently over the hill.
The
beetle-browed bookie can't cope without the buxom barmaid and turns to his dad Ken for help.
Beetle-browed Pete Postlethwaite stars in what could be one of the highlights of the BBC's revamped schedules.
If Gordon Brown slowed up, took time to smooze - the politician's mixture of smooth and ooze - he wouldn't be the Dark Destroyer, the hulking Heathcliff figure, black,
beetle-browed, the menacing man-in-the-middle who has become a target for Labour Left and Tory Right.
Beetle-browed Alistair Darling on the Northern Rock crisis: "I was told I had developed a few grey hairs - there was a point when I thought I my eyebrows were turning grey as well."
Only weakness at a performance level--and it's a crucial one--is Chen, as the permanently
beetle-browed Fong: the actress-singer, who played the shrink in "Infernal Affairs," lacks the acting smarts to humanize such a one-note role.