Word: baloneyed
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...more interested in the grim wages of sin than in its appealing depiction; this New York writer-director was the Zola of the back streets. His first feature, which he directed in 1963 under the name Anthony Farrar, is a beguiling mix of no-nudity eroticism and supernatural baloney; an aging stripper (June Colbourne) uses an amulet to work her power on men. It doesn't matter that the actors are not especially attractive, because the movie is about people who, like most of us, only think they're sexy...
...close, Arnold Schwarzenegger seems not quite real, an animatronic version of himself. His skin is waxworks smooth, his hair untroubled by gray, his accent so often imitated that the real thing sounds like someone goofing on Ahhnold. He speaks informally-there is no hortatory political baloney to him-but we are not really having a conversation. The Governor of California has his lines, and he recites them, just as he did onscreen, with a knowing, ironic clumsiness. All of which tends to undercut his current message, which is quite radical. After a year of trying to negotiate with his state...
...foreign-policy part of the debate. The domestic-policy section was fascinating--in part, because we hadn't heard the two men debate these issues before and also because Bush had a comprehensible, if questionable, philosophy: lower taxes, smaller government. And in part because Kerry indulged in some serious baloney slicing...
...warning that the base is under attack. To a third GI he whispers, "I think we're in for a bombing," and a sign sprouts: HOT AIR. "The hot air is blowing, a rumor is growing," the narrator warns. "Balloon juice is phony, but it makes good baloney." A soldier with a mouth shaped like a howitzer is told: "Now shoot off your face" - the mouth goes BOOM! - "and baloney is flying all over the place." The hysteria is spread by airborne sausage skins, baloney balloons, are flying in formation (in misinformation formation, that is) with news that "the Japs...
...Australia, she has the gift of slipping into any character, any accent, and looking, sounding comfortable in it. She can play smart people in stupid situations, like the reporter walking into endless psychic booby traps in the hit thriller The Ring. This can't be a plate of supernatural baloney, the audience thought, because she's feeding...