"Smooth and solemnized complacencies" is an antique line from William Wordsworth put to incisive use by Robert Fulford. Send in the clowns at the CBC is his specific prognosis but the utility of 'solemnized complacencies' extends to the entire range of self-sustaining pomposities who equate their privileges and affluence with the common good. Annex ascetics and worldsavers come on down.
"There's a giddy young woman called Promo Girl who pops up between programs to advertise the network's great shows. She's relentlessly kooky and playful --and there's no way to avoid her because she appears without warning.
She speaks in the same bouncy way whether the program she's publicizing deals with the tragedies of Islamic history or the latest indie rock."
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