Word: smug
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...countenance, and a fascinating profile, which Edlestein uses repeatedly, often backlit, to suggest her mysterious vacuity; Hope Wilson as Kate is blessed with straightforward beauty and a rare up-from-under smile; Eric Sherman as John has a face which suggests a different value from every angle, by turns smug or harassed, depressed, or elated, dull or clever. Edlestein himself, playing Kate's friend Paul, provides the only really acted characterization in the film...
Groups of clubmen will gather in smug houses on Prospect St. to decide who will take toast and tea with them for the next two years, and who won't. It has been this way for 50 years...
With a quick change of hair style, posture and camera angle, he turns into a fire-breathing Jomo Kenyatta, a smug Queen Victoria or a lurching Foreign Secretary George Brown, sputtering: "I'm having to solve the Viet Nam war, and you don't see pictures of me doing that, do you? No! You see pictures of me doing the hokey-pokey!" In a recent takeoff on BBC documentaries, he played a mustachioed producer, a brandy-guzzling announcer, an unemployed lathe operator-and the entire British Cabinet. In last week's skit, Bird was a lisping Field...
...There are, I imagine, people like myself who supported the Kennedy-Johnson ticket of 1960 on the smug assumption that Mr. Johnson couldn't do too much damage as Vice President. Illumination from the harsh light of history would now cause us to take a long, hard look at a Rockefeller-Reagan offering...
...special election to fill the spot Sir Stafford gave up in the General Assembly, his United Bahamian Party hung on to his seat by the simple expedient of running a Negro. Clearly, the party, if not the man, still has considerable power. "The Bahamians need us," said a smug Bahamian Club croupier. "Tourism couldn't survive without us. Why, the beaches ain't as big as these crap tables...