The satire is old hat and not terribly funny, trying to trade on affection for a vanished American idyll even as it sends it up.
He continued: "Trading on affections sustained over 40 years of popular culture, Star Trek does what a franchise reboot rarely does.
They hitchhike and train-hop and trade small affections in this warm but inert buddy film that occasionally veers toward the tedious.
A scene between Helga and a fugitive Nazi soldier suggests she has been playing David for a fool all along; she remains a committed Nazi who has traded her affections for a meal ticket.
But at heart, both shows trade on our affection for the music coupled with ongoing intrigue about the men who made it.
To his men, Girouard had been a mentor and a friend; because of his rapid promotion, he was not much older than the soldiers beneath him, and at times he appeared to trade discipline for affection.
The vice president need not worry that voters will think he is trying to trade on Americans' affection for his father, because only older voters in Tennessee would have the requisite memory of the man.
Wealthy investors with more than $1m in their accounts are unusual in their affection for trading individual shares, with 30 per cent or more of portfolios invested in single company positions, according to a study from E*Trade Financial.
Fuller had been a reporter and retained a jaundiced affection for his old trade.
Mr. Wang, of course, is a study in precocity, his affection for the rag trade nurtured, it seems, from the cradle.
It was odd to see all this affection between two men who traded bitter, childish insults during the Republican primary campaign — and the rapprochement didn't stop there.
