She bought one of those Droll Yankee bird feeders in Bloomingdale's and filled it with Audubon Premium Blend birdseed.
As Dez Brennan, one of the droll Scots, says: 'It's a strange way to save the planet, but I can live with that.' A foot safari is the best way to experience Africa.
Yet Guitry, directing one of the droll comedies or sweeping historical epics -- "The Story of a Cheat," "Pearls of the Crown" -- that he wrote as vehicles for himself, his wives and his assorted friends and colleagues, remains one of the great boon companions of the movies, a genial host who liked nothing more than providing entertainment and edification for his guests.
And in one of many droll case studies we learn of the "Twinkie defence", when the sugar rush supposedly induced by a brand of cake was successfully used by lawyers acting for the man accused of the murder of gay US politician Harvey Milk.
The mother has remarried; her husband is an amiable but inert lump of uppercrust WASP matter, one of many droll portraits drawn from that bastion of stricken privilege: "a particular brand of New York Calvinism that had strong opinions about predestination and free will, their existence justified by their own success".
(A play on Hirohito's resemblance to Charlie Chaplin is one of the droller moments in "The Sun").
Jane Austen is revered as one of the drollest authors of all time, and her subjects were, in effect, the suburbanites of the 18th century.
In "Take Me to Town" (playing December 31st), Sirk offers a trio of headstrong young brothers, the youngest of whom (played by Dusty Henley) is one of the drollest movie kids this side of George Winslow.
As with Mr. Lodge's other books, "Thinks...". is on one level a droll, irreverent exploration of sexual and educational shenanigans on a university campus.
And 20 minutes later Garry responded with one of his trademark droll comments.
