Word: smug
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this middle-aged man, who himself is not noticeably different from any of my parents' friends? And what happened in those intervening years? How does one metamorphose out of a gangly 22 year-old, posing with an awkwardly self-conscious smirk, into a stolid 47 year-old whose smug grin is nothing if not genuine and unaffected...
...emblazoned with the smug white title, "Condom Week," contains prophylactics. No, they are perfectly strong, and no, they don't last for seven days. Dartboard has little prurient interest, but the pink dish has been sitting smugly in the dining hall, remaining full for nearly an extra two weeks now. Appropriate though it was in the week leading up to Valentine's Day, that scourge of many a Harvardian, the flowerpot has now begun to point a mocking finger...
...Family Ties" and "Growing Pains:" Living the lives of two working parents, a smug older brother (Alex Keaton, Mike Seaver), the self-conscious middle sister (Mallory, Carol) the forgotten third child (Jennifer, Ben), one annoying friend (Skippy, Boner) and a random fourth child who emerges as the series starts to wane (Andrew, Chrissy...
...Moscow's stores and advertisements, consumer culture has an in-your-face showmanship. In America, we seem to have moved away from glitziness to an age of smug, oblique advertising. American advertisements do not even bother to show the product anymore. Rather, Madison Avenue delivers an inexplicable barrage of post-MTV cuts and images. In Moscow, the advertising is every bit as conspicuous as the consumption. Opulence is in. The endless parade of television ads for health products, from Head & Shoulders to Centrum to Trojans to breast enlargements, shows in painstakingly detailed diagrams exactly how beautiful and healthy these products...
...were just in Burlington, Vt., and before that Boulder a few days ago, and that type of smug liberal intolerance drives me up the fucking wall; like people who preach the virtues of tolerance unless you disagree with them. I believe so strongly in freedom of speech...for everybody. You should be allowed to represent in words whatever you want because they're words. There's a big difference between writing about child pornography and making child pornography...