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Recently, the privacy problem was campily dramatized at a glass house on a busy Tokyo corner.

("Most of the adults got out," a campily sinister narrator says.

Kallman, once a beauty, excelled in later years at being campily outrageous.

Sometimes she breaks campily into song.

What they do get are hefty doses of abuse from the campily stern Ms. Robinson.

He played himself, campily, in Wayne's World .

Nearly every piece of comic business is campily extraneous to the text, while the lines are blithely disregarded.

Together, they are thoroughly, almost campily, British, attracting expatriates and Anglophiles alike.

Their attraction is campily signified by a roccoco cupid circling around their heads.

The Personal Skylines salon on Madison Avenue was far too campily cutting-edge for his taste.

The video features the tall, thin Mr. Newkirk dancing with wonderful, campily wild grace across a verdant lawn.

What keeps his work from becoming campily oppressive (like the last, dreadful Batman picture) is his respect for the untranscendent flatness of ordinary life.

The fact that the dancers were nude, male and armed with campily phallic cardboard guns was refreshingly secondary and apolitical in tone.

Sometimes he can be campily comic, as in "The Fool" (1993), a parody of the pompous equestrian portraits of European kings.

But Mr. Spelling clearly prefers glitzier pastures, the kind Joan Collins campily traipsed about in "Dynasty."

And the rally could almost have commissioned the B-52's, whose latest songs - especially "Roam," about enjoying the wilderness - gamely, campily grin through environmental worries.

Only when Barbara Bryne is mugging campily as Jack's mother does the humor compromise the production's fundamental belief in grave, ontological fairy-tale magic.

Onstage, however, he's still applying his rock heldentenor to Jim Steinman's proudly, campily bombastic songs about fondly remembered teenage lust and the possibility of love.

It's basically soap opera for posh people, but as it's campily entertaining, nicely looked at and easy on the eye, it'll do for some harmless Sunday night entertainment.

In the 1995 documentary about him, "Unzipped," Mr. Mizrahi proved himself to be the kind of person to whom campily arch observations of popular culture come effortlessly.

The musical numbers, bathed in a roseate glow or set behind pouring rain or around an enormous statue of Eros, with odd characters wandering by, are campily catchy.

MINUSES: - The history is sketchy, and there are no characters to speak of except for a campily overacted Mao Zedong.

The novel itself reads like a shrill, preposterous right-wing answer to this year's shrill, preposterous but campily entertaining global warming disaster movie "The Day After Tomorrow."

Here he's taller, his nickname is Shade, and as campily played by Michael-John Pobuda, he resembles a cross between Richard Simmons and Dracula.