The irritating movie trailer of the moment is Captain Corelli's Mandolin. I do not ever again with to hear "bella bambina at X o'clock." The NYT had a piece on how the filming of the movie has attracted tourists to Cephalonia. The vogue word of the moment of which I am most weary is snarky: overused and wrongly used. In Texas Monthly there's a piece quoting either Halbouty or Oscar Wyatt and saying, "he whelped." Somhow one doubts that the writer or any of those who passed on the copy were very conversant with the verb "to whelp" or with the noun, either.