Most out-of-towners, even the hopelessly square, don't want to end up at the Howard Johnson's lounge in Times Square.

Forty years later-now that Christian rock is commonplace-it seems hopelessly square.

Dylan's "Ballad of a Thin Man," for example, about the hopelessly square Mr. Jones, would be lost on its central character.

When it comes to fusion, the film gets hopelessly square.

The old-country parents see their Americanized offspring as selfish, ungrateful and unappreciative of their cultural heritage; the children see their parents as hopelessly square.

Possibly Deety and Zebbie talked the same way to each other in private-and regarded us "old folks" as hopelessly square.

Reginald Rose's schematic dramaturgy may be hopelessly square, but Scott Ellis's collectively superb cast softens its blunter edges.

After the screening, I wandered into a shoe-box-size record store - the kind of place designed to make anyone who doesn't work there feel hopelessly square.

Her battle-ax mother, Endora, ruthlessly heaps primeval scorn on Samantha's hopelessly square mate.

To the Editor: What Jerry Seinfeld doesn't know is that he loves his neighborhood because he, of course, is hopelessly square.