Word: smirking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With Ellsberg. Editor Buckley managed to be out of town when the story broke, leaving word that he was "hiding out where Daniel Ellsberg is." But he quickly returned to New York City with a smirk and a prepared statement that the National Review's papers had been "composed ex nihilo" (out of nothing). In short, it was all a hoax, which had "sprung full-blown in my mind like Venus from the Cypriot seas." The authors' "most arduous challenge was to emulate bureaucratic prose...
Ameche wink, and smirk, "howdy like to take me home with...
...raining Thursday afternoon in Cambridge. Harry Parker emerged from the boathouse and strode onto the slippery Newell dock with a smug smirk on his lips...
This pair of samples indicates the prevailing tone of the evening, which is selfconsciously "naughty" and as torpidly old-fashioned as a smirk. Channing and Caesar are the consolation prizes, and they could use a little consoling themselves-say a sudden revival of Hello, Dolly! or something with the truly masterly zaniness of Caesar's salad days...
...bridge the generation gap. The dialogue of the two "now" lovers will easily set back the counter-culture three centuries. Their mighty efforts to keep it cool result in funky gems like, "Oh, we're a little negative on the God bit." All this comes with the most maddening smirk, which Ali-Jenny indulges whenever she calls her lover "preppie"-a dangerous line from a Rad-lib Wellesley heroine with fewer Italian gestures than Oliver Barrett...