Word: smug
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...changes it has undergone in the past year. The very real events which quickened the anger of students--most notably the war in Indochina--are purposely forgotten by the technicolor pictures, the catchy, cute Times, the mock attempt to mix levity and analysis. The vapid generalization and the smug cliche vie for supremacy, and the product passes for hard-won analysis...
...about penicillin!" one doctor responds. "Talking to parents or patients was not our thing," the intern muses. "We were not very good with death." A nurse agrees: "You're all so smug and self-centered and unapproachable...
...only disappointment is Michelle Phillips as Billie Frechette, who manages to look like both Faye Dunaway and Ali McGraw, the new gun molls of the '70s (Eecch!). Her acting regrettably takes faithfully after Ali McGraw's (as if the Real McGraw isn't enough). Though not quite as smug, Phillips has the same simpering voice and snotty facial mannerisms that have made Quick-Draw McGraw's twitching mouth and flaring nostrils so unjustly famous. One thing for Phillips, though--she sure can scream...
...Delusions, etc. points to this funny twist of Irony in his Belief. The book is mainly a series of daily prayers, some overwhelmingly joyous, many serious addresses to God. Only a few of these last poems are sad. But then there is the title, and a picture of a smug Berryman staring out--is he laughing to himself or finally at ease...
...changes it has undergone in the past year. The very real events which quickened the anger of students--most notably the war in Indochina--are purposely forgotten by the technicolor pictures, the catchy, cute Timese, the mock attempt to mix levity and analysis. The vapid generalization and the smug clichevie for supremacy, and the product passes for hard-won analysis...