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...this were seriously offered as a motive for the erection of Humphrey Bogart as a culture hero, then this review could be assured of the same uneducated silence that local audiences give to jokes about meat rationing in movies of the 'forties: or acknowledged with the same smug chuckle of the rare undergrad who recognizes the reference to "red points" for what it is, and hoarsely tells his neighbors of his knowledge. But the unashamed hilarity that attends the Bogart festival at the Brattle is indicative that the greatest part of the audience is as ignorant of their escape into...
Usually the show's run is extended, sometimes for half a year or more. But customers who avoid doctors and insurance men, do not attend union meetings, and are past college age, resent having to pay the regular onefer price. Did the smug type in the next seat, the onefer buyer wonders, get his wholesale...
...scout or not, Davis had a genius for the self-advertising gesture. What's more, he was smug-a stuffed shirt, loaded with medals, who found far too many opportunities to deplore the young women who gushed over poor, handsome him. "I am," he concluded comfortably, "too attractive...
...There is popular worry at home over the need for a better atmosphere between Germany and its friends and the usual opposition to spending money on practically anything. Von Brentano's meeting with Kennedy, like Adenauer's talks with De Gaulle costs nothing and can be presented to a smug electorate as a diplomatic merit badge: personal diplomacy is cheap...
...spending his nights writing "750 pages of the world's worst trilogy," he quit his last odd job-Western Union messenger-three years ago to become a playwright. His first effort, The Zoo Story, an affecting work about the failure of communication between a lonely outcast and a smug square, had its première in Berlin, where it was hailed as "the Götterdämmerung of the gutter." Albee has since turned out four more one-act works, is currently working up from one-acters toward full-length drama by writing a two-act play that...