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Gambit. A perfect crime is like a soup-can skyscraper in a supermarket. Its smug symmetry, the hubris of it all, inspires the naughty little boy in everybody with a devilish desire to give the arrogant thing a nudge and bring it down in a thundering great heap. In Gambit, the naughty little boy in everybody should have the time of his life...
...important art exhibitions are concerned," wrote Canaday, "New York is becoming a cultural backwater. Our smug conviction that we are the art center of the country has only the weakest justification: we are only the center where the most buying and selling of art goes on, and we are not really much interested in art except as a sales product, whether the sales pitch is in dollars and cents or in the race to" be first with esthetic novelties...
...losing whatever basis they may have had. No longer does the city suffer from chronic San Francisco envy, even though it has taken up the San Francisco-originated topless-waitress fad. With more grandeur if less concentrated charm, Los Angeles is refreshingly free of San Francisco's narcissistic smugness. Los Angeles has no time to be smug. It is too busy: busy building its $19 million privately financed Music Center, a downtown complex consisting of the 3,250-seat Pavilion and two smaller, almost completed theaters; busy putting up galleries like the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; busy...
...some anti-Semitic dialogue, ad-libbed by real-life British fascists, might peeve the public. The dialogue was cut before release, but the film is still incendiary. With ferocious frankness, Brownlow and Mollo propose that the British, by succumbing to the sophistries of reverse racialism, have become entirely too smug about the Germans and their responses to Hitler. Plenty of feet in England or anywhere else, this picture suggests, would feel quite comfortable in jack boots...
...done. He and the thousands like him who have enlisted have made possible the deferment of many students who are using someone else's future to educate themselves. I wouldn't trade one of the memories I have of my nephew for the whole, smug, overeducated carcass of one of these bearded, unbathed louts who are infesting our colleges and using them as a haven for their cowardice or as a sounding board for Red propaganda...