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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...
WHETHER God is dead or not, his angels seem to be. The angel in 1970 is mere commercial décor-a mothlike doll with pink wings and a smirk of good cheer, dangling amid the glitter balls on a thousand plastic Yule trees or twanging its polystyrene harp in the window of a Brooklyn store. In fact, Christmas is about the only area of our culture in which angels survive at all. An archangel, Gabriel, told the Virgin Mary that she would bear the son of God; it was an angel (progenitor of a billion Christmas cards) who appeared...