Word: smugness
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When Reagan left Washington in August for a monthlong vacation at his California ranch, he had just wrapped up Chapter 1 and had every reason to feel satisfied, even a bit smug. No President since Franklin D. Roosevelt had done so much so quickly to change the basic path of the American economy. Though critics had confidently predicted that Congress would never go along with his daring "supply-side" strategy of large budget cuts and deep tax reductions, Reagan had pushed his programs through the House and Senate virtually intact...
MATEP, in short, is looking rather smug, and the NOMATEP coalition may be dwindling. According to one Harvard official, the coalition numbers no more than 50. "They claim to have the support of over 100 groups, but they don't even have 100 people," the official says. And Harvard spokesman Rosen notes, "One interesting fact about the NOMATEP coalition is that there's never been a national environmental or special interest group behind them. It hasn't been like Seabrook, for instance...
...textbook modernism as reflected by its satirists, Lichtenstein may certainly be said to display a post-modernist sensibility; but what else is going on? Not, it appears, very much, and to call these paintings "visionary," as Cowart does, is to overrate them. Rather, they are grounded on a somewhat smug familiarity with the power of cliche. That, of course, is one dilemma of art education...
...Count--his "high spirits" reach only middling altitudes. As he counters the Count's designs on his bride-to-be Suzanne with plots of his own, he acts more like an lago than a Prospero. Karen Macdonald's Suzanne follows his lead--spleen overbalances sweetness. Harry Murphy's smug Count and Cheryl Ginannini's hoarse, pouting Countess are closer to the mark--he displays all the insight of a brontosaurs, she the passivity of a wildcat. These are Beaumarchais' hollow hulks of aristocracy waiting for someone...
Last week, the ruggers were smug, even arrogant, content to lounge around in their newly-won jackets, drinking their favorite beer out of their favorite mugs. You might say they had a right to be--after 18 straight victories, an Ivy League trophy, and a trip to the National Championships...