Word: smugly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...looked as if ole George was leaving politics after 16 years as the self-styled message-bearer of disaffected Americans. His longtime sparring partners in the press wrote smug political obituaries. Said the New York Times: "His were the resentful people, who wave flags and are frightened by those who look 'different.' " The Washington Post recalled: "His success obliged those other politicians to address both the Wallace constituency and the Wallace issues, without adopting the discredited Wallace racial line...
There has never been anything polite about Reed's music, then or now; not a laid-back note or a smug lie. Reed has seen his poetry published in the Paris Review and Fusion, and both stubborn bards and diehard rock 'n' rollers will recognize-maybe even sympathize with-the sentiments expressed in the chorus of a new Reed tune...
...EXCELLENT PERFORMANCES by Kowalski and Hufstader, pregnant patient and principled physician run through the standard arguments for and against abortion. This time, however, the sex roles are reversed: Man is the desperate, powerless victim, and woman the smug, powerful perpetrator. To his cry that he has the right to pursue a career he's worked hard to establish, the feminist surgeon ironically answers that the unborn also have rights and that even one transgression of these rights would set an evil precedent. When he says he'd like to kill her, she replies that often "the impregnated wants to kill...
...dinosaur-like qualities: Bobby Neuwirth's beer belly, and his inability to hit the high, or low notes; Ramblin' Jack's memory loss in the middle of songs that seemed never to end. In a way, Rolling Thunder was a cruel joke--Dylan's goodbye to all that, his smug see-how-I've-changed-and-they-haven't-and-aren't-they-pathetic-but-give-them-a-good-hand-and-we'll-do--"Black Diamond Bay." The Moral: While Rolling Thunder was the name of the tour, it was also the codeword for the American bombing of North Vietnam...
...their part, the Communists were smug about the defeat of the leftist coalition. Indeed, their party's strength has remained stable (at about 21 % of the popular vote) for the past 20 years. Many observers thought Marchais had deliberately set out to sabotage the left's alliance rather than risk being dominated by the Socialists in a leftist government. Still, Marchais was hardly prepared to explain what his behind-the-scenes strategy had been. His brash postelection comment was, simply, "We are more than ever convinced that a union of the left is necessary." The party daily...