Word: gimmick
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...Cosby Show makes a graceful, understated exit. There is no grand climax, tear-jerking finale or other last-show gimmick, and only one nostalgic flashback (a father-son talk from the very first Cosby episode). In the last scene, Cliff and Clair perform some minor business about a broken doorbell, dance together, then stroll off the set. Stepping out of character, they walk arm in arm through the cameras, crew and applauding studio audience. And, with becoming modesty, into TV history...
Although Media Amok's concept is an intriguing one, Durang fails to develop it into more than that. Thin writing and uninspired humor, uncharacteristic of Durang's usual sharp-wittedness, leave us only with the television gimmick, and it is simply not enough to sustain an entire evening in the theater...
...MARCH 17, in a national referendum with an 85 percent voter turnout, South African whites voted overwhelmingly (69 percent for, 31 against) to end the system of apartheid. This was no political gimmick on the part of the governing National Party, nor was it a merely grudging acceptance of reality...
...critic is a gimmick created by a newspaper,"he added to audience laughter. "A lot of thesecritics, I don't know where they're at, but Ithink they're at a very low level of existence...
...would be recaptured by raising the top income tax rate to 38% on earnings above $200,000 a year. On average, a middle-class family would gain about $350 a year, a "paltry" 97 cents a day, says Tsongas, who decries Clinton's plan as a "pandering, poll-driven gimmick" that "won't create jobs or help our economy...