Word: eyewash
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...horse -TV has shaken down into a schedule so dense with dross that tuning in at almost any hour is enough to make the dial flip. Perhaps the wonder-and certainly cause for cheer-is that the viewer who steers a knowing course through the immense, unending flow of eyewash can still find so much to charm...
...Harry Truman himself, he had staked the prestige of his old age on the proposition that the reign of moderation was nonsense. By his lights (primaries, said he in 1952, are just "eyewash"), a convention is still the place to get political business done, and 1956 is just like any old year except that the Democrats are out of power and he has a candidate that he wants to put in the White House...
...friendly nations, is cautiously excited about the great ghee plan. It might be the greatest idea in international farm trade since Mark Twain's Colonel Mulberry Sellers dreamed of a great sales organization-with its headquarters in Constantinople and its hindquarters in Further India-to sell patented eyewash to ophthalmia-ridden Orientals...
...been a satisfactory motto on the field, but he has supplemented it with a three-point code. "First, I consider what's good for the boy. Second, what's good for the institution he represents, and third, what's good for the sport." These standards are not mere eyewash: Dick Clasby, injured in last year's Davidson game, might have made the difference in the Princeton game. But even though Clasby had a medical release, Jordan refused to use him, barking "I don't know when he'll be back" at the press. As a coach, he sets trite...
...Tuneful. Both Medic and Satins and Spurs (telecast in color) proved first-rate. The spectacular (a word detested by everyone at NBC, except the publicity department and President Pat Weaver) was big and tuneful. The book (by William Friedberg and Producer Liebman) contained the usual musical-comedy eyewash: Betty Hutton was cast as an untutored cowgirl who comes to Manhattan, falls in love with a LIFE photographer, falls out of love, falls back in love again. But it was a fine vehicle for the Hutton bounce and enabled her to do her brash singing and dancing against a background...