Word: smug
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seven minutes and brings together all the elements in Locke's world. It would be unfair to tell exactly what happens, but watching Antonioni make it happen is a rare sensual pleasure. The Passenger is not a great film, but its very ambition is a reminder of how smug and easy most movies are, and how little they dare...
...like no insider ever could. Last week, after only a month on the job, Chairman Scott, 44, took a tradition-shattering step toward revitalizing a company that long ago lost its place as the monarch of U.S. food retailing. He knew that A. & P.'s secretive, sometimes smug management had determinedly followed outmoded policies. It failed to invest in modern suburban supermarkets but held on to too many small, low-profit central city stores that seemed mustily Dickensian compared with the competition. So Scott won the board's preliminary approval to shut down fully one-third...
...accord left the city with a pair of smug, noncompetitive, conservative newspapers. Not until the gradual involvement of Randolph Hearst, father of kidnaped Patty Hearst and the Examiner's president since 1973, did the old family flagship begin to change. Stirred by a tour of the barrios of several cities, including San Francisco, in 1969, and pressured by his daughter Patty and nephew Willie, who told him that the Bay Area's young ignored the Examiner, Randolph Hearst appointed men in their 30s to the city-editor and news-editor slots, put some life into the paper...
Pure Chandler. Take, for example, Spenser's reply to a smug and windy college president who wants to emphasize the "delicacy" of his predicament: "Look, I went to college once, I don't wear my hat indoors. And if a clue comes along and bites me on the ankle I grab it. I am not however an Oxford don. I am a private detective. Is there something you'd like me to detect or are you just polishing up your elocution for next year's commencement?" Pure Chandler. So is the president's riposte...
...poet has become an old-man at the fireside not a tortured and self-torturing ego but a satisfied, even smug, old man who can whisper the sentiments of others because he feels them himself...