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...MOMA does not creak with intrusive imagery. It does not look like an airport, a temple, a constructivist factory, a tomb or a fortress, to cite the five most popular types of recent museum. And it is blissfully free of the kind of capricious, name-dropping revivalism, the coy and schematic quotes, that some critics number among the joys of postmodernism...
Most rockers, male or female, play a coy game of footsie under the table with fate. Hynde stomps right on its toes. When she gets kicked back, she writes a song that is part taunt, part testament and part a perpetual reappraisal of the price paid for defiance. This keen balancing act between distance and immediacy is probably what saved Hynde when the going got tough a few years back...
...escape the contrived manipulations of the film. Why does Kay finally decide to go out with Lucky after she's turned him down every week for the last month? Her awkward explanation. "You know I think you're really swell" is hardly a sufficient clue. Was her initial reluctance coy, or indicative of some inner moral turmoil...
...True, liberals may be somewhat embarrassed to be found in bed with bluenoses, but the Minneapolis case is easily explained away as a one-issue marriage of convenience.) In an age when the most private of human activities is everywhere called by its most common name, why be so coy about giving censorship its proper name too? -By Charles Krauthammer
...gesture--half coy and fully arrogant--was that of the philosopher playboy and says much about the man who's exhausted national cynicism by playing Parliament and parading as Ambassadeur extraordinarie at the expense of domestic recovery...