I thoroughly enjoyed The Finkler Question: its mad, sad blend of high-wire comedy and genuine, honest-to-goodness grief - and the questions it asks about both - made it a whip-smart pleasure to read.
How much we decide to trust him, and the articles he summarizes, is part of his point, and part of the smart, subversive pleasure of the work.
And watch the set between acts for one of the night's smart little pleasures: the stagehands, all wearing olive caps and fatigues.
Smart woman: the pleasure was in its building.
But the Smart ED was a pleasure to drive.
They can be both smart and fun, a pleasure without guilt and self-aware without being snobby.
Intense, salty Roquefort, rich St.-André and tangy, creamy Boucheron -- like nearly everything else on this menu, they go beautifully together, leaving you with a powerful desire to linger, keep tasting and return to find out what other pleasures this smart, talented chef can come up with.
For a more satisfying glimpse of this horrifying deserted resort-town, look no further than Chris Metzler and Jeff Springer's smart documentary Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea, narrated by John Waters.
Hare discusses, though in a different context (1981: 142 4), the pleasure machine imagined by J.J.C. Smart (Smart & Williams 1983: 18) that maximizes the pleasures of a subject through generating a stream of illusory but enjoyable experiences.
That's the pleasure of a smart sitcom, one that throws darts that land lightly, but hit hard.
At the same time, Carolin and Soderbergh have done something smart: they've grounded the pleasure world in the cash-strapped realities of the moment.
