Word: smugness
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...that any contemporary jazz artist could find elsewhere the particular combination of creative congeniality, "very fair" royalty rates and marketing clout that ECM has to offer. This has led, almost inevitably, to the threat of corporate complacency, a cloud over the cachet. ECM has taken some heat for issuing smug, snug suburban jazz, and, perhaps in response, Eicher has brought some fringe groups into the fold. He has released two records by the Art Ensemble of Chicago, who lay down a kind of ripped and fragmented aural collage, as well as an acetylene album by Old and New Dreams...
...Kate is skeptical, impatient, ambitious and confident: she seems the perfect antagonist for the institution she takes on in this, the sixth Cross book. The Harvard that appears in Death in a Tenured Position is big, smug, successful and emphatically male--a sort of hybrid of the oracle of Delphi and the balcony men's room at the Boston Garden. Its entrenched inhabitants greet change with affection usually reserved for sneezing leprosy victims...
REED BRINGS an air of confident, but never smug, sophistication to her numbers. However, the highly emotional style that succeeds with songs such as "Send in the Clowns," becomes familiar by the end of the evening, and is obviously unsuited to softer numbers. Kean's quieter voice and more focused performing style provides a contrast to Reed's occasionally overpowering delivery...
...senator, for his part, thinks Dolan is a twerp. Weicker scoffs at smug predictions that the Republican victories of 1980 portend an era of extreme conservatism in America. He calls Dolan "wacky," even "repugnant," and recalls that he was never very good as a go-fer anyway...
With those smug words, a small-time criminal with big Mob connections claimed that he pulled off a scheme to attempt to fix the scores of nine Boston College basketball games during the 1978-79 season. In a first-person account in last week's SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, Henry Hill says he bribed three Boston College players, including Co-Captains Ernie Cobb and Jim Sweeney, to shave points so that Hill and his friends in the Tommy Lucchese crime family could gamble successfully against the point spread...