The tension between them has been building, and there can be but one possible cure: massive smooching.

Given all the half-naked smooching going on during that opening number, it would be an easy mistake to make.

George blubbers while smooching Karen's cheeks, oblivious to the scene he creates.

Who cares that the lyrics express her ambivalence about girl-on-girl smooching?

What a to-do about a little nocturnal smooching.

At first, Kelleher, more than twice her age, acted like her smooching, hugging sweetheart.

"No smooching between you two lovebirds," Jody scolded, handing them each a crystal glass of their preferences.

Simon and River helped Kaylee with the technical stuff, though that was slowed by the random smooching.

No smooching before dark!"

A flair for high-society smooching has not always been an essential skill in running New York City's public schools.

After venting his anger, Rob calms down and hops into the vat with her for some milky smooching.

When the girlfriend, Nicole, also fails to return his calls, he wanders over to her neighborhood just in time to see her smooching another guy on the sidewalk.

James Stewart, meanwhile, spoke of his scene in the car with Harlow, saying, "Clarence Brown, the director, wasn't too pleased by the way I did the smooching.

The film, like Ms. Oates's novel, is narrated by Maddy, a nice, sensible art student who falls in love with Legs but shrinks in terror when the opportunity for serious smooching presents itself.

Mr. Sewell, who was once seen smooching with Kate Winslet at this very restaurant but who is now happily living with a fashion journalist, has some reason to be concerned about show business's looks-ist tendencies.

Judging from these, here's what we have to look forward to: conga lines, deodorant spritzing, leg shaving, smooching, fighting, more smooching, pillow fighting, X-rated smooching (under wiggling comforters).

In the fourth inning, Lamb hit Morris's 2-1 pitch over the short porch in left field, breaking a scoreless tie and sending the 42,823 towel-waving fans - including the former President George H.W. Bush, who was caught smooching his wife, Barbara, for the Kiss Cam after the fifth - into a tizzy.

Remember, I saw her smooching with someone in the dark.

"Are we going to have to watch them smooch all the time?"

The rest of us can smooch around all over the place.

Then he smooched twice into the phone and hung up.

"Shut up or I'll have to smooch him in front of you."

A young fellow was smooching his girl and loving her up in the park.

Do not smooch with your boyfriend in a deserted park at night.

Desperately trying to find someone, anyone, to smooch at the midnight hour?

"I can picture my parents in this little side seat here turning off the lights and smooching."

They were smooching away like mad dogs in the back row.

Then she draped herself over a former boyfriend and tried to smooch with him.

"She was smooching with some guy in Hoboken also," he said.

She had peeked to see what was going on and discovered that they were smooching.

When they smooch in a greenhouse, she says he's a good kisser.

At the other side he is smooching and hugging a dumbfounded man.

Bobby liked that even less than watching the guy smooch her cheek.

And then they started smooching, and this confused everybody further.

"My idea of fun is riding a wave, not standing on a stage smooching with a boy."

Startled at first, she smooched back, then rubbed noses with him.

She wastes no time trying to put her arms around the Woodpecker so they can smooch.

"Tucker, are you going to stand around all day smooching with that Yankee?

"For smooching around with you before that trouble came.

Suck on a tube and smooch a bit, talk about childhood in a sleepy voice.

Everybody gets to smooch with everybody, all of them wearing short red dresses.

He'd have had a cow if he could have seen them smooching earlier at the airport.

The guard pushed her back into the room for a smooch.

Photographs of a big smooch by the couple appeared all over the fashion press.

He shot his head forward and gave her a toothy smooch.

"She came to visit and we had a little smooch," he recalls.

Obviously they had met before, and their final smooch seemed like a startling new touch.

She gave him another huge smooch and the crowd went wild with delight.

Nah, it is pointed out, he came in with the smooch mark.

"Maybe she just wasn't thrilled to have you watching her smooch."

When Spears walked on stage, the two shared a polite smooch.

"We used to take our dates behind those pillars and sneak a little smooch."

What's a kiss-and-cry moment without the smooch of a perfect score?

Thanks to the big smooch, women have finally cottoned to the Democratic nominee.

A smooch in print from a big American newspaper is still something of a mixed blessing here.

She said yes, grabbed his face and gave him a huge smooch as the crowd applauded.

She gave me a wet smooch and backed away.

Not a deep Hollywood smooch, but not a light brush either.

There was a nice pay off though, with a long awaited smooch between her and Jack."

Down the row someone made a kiss sound, a long-drawn smooch.

The work starts to feel like work, and for most writers that is the smooch of death.

Al Gore's convention smooch won the hearts of all those female voters who had been playing hard to get.

Instead of a smooch, I worked my thumb through the skin into the brand-new gap between his teeth.

"It's your last damned smooch; make it a good one," Purple said.

Several other Valentine's bears have been introduced since, including Smooch.