Word: gimmicked
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...October, the Camel's Hump, on Boylston St. displayed a mannikin dressed as a battered corpse in its window, but removed the display when feminist organizers in Cambridge protested the advertising gimmick...
...message is that art may just be a big gimmick. Unfortunately, F for Fake, as a gimmick on gimmicks, soon begins to wear thin...
...memorable image of a blood-soaked Carrie glaring upon the suddenly soundless ballroom marks the point where DePalma abandons all self-restraint. Gimmick piles upon gimmick as Carrie wreaks her vengeance; screens split, reddish tones suffuse the lens, a single shot multiplies into a revolving wheel of faces both shocked and gleeful. The film now develops into a full-scale assault upon the senses that ultimately gluts the viewer's mind with technique...
...seemed to be adding girth daily. He stopped for hamburgers on his way home, kept a box of candy under his bed for midnight snacks-and watched his blood pressure soar. "I was ready for the basket," says Hillier, who had tried every imaginable weight reduction gimmick, including amphetamines, without success. That was only five months ago. Now the 6 ft. 4 in. Hillier is down to a trim 200 lbs., feels so good he wants to start skiing and, patting his new flat stomach, boasts: "I have the libido of a teen-ager...
...record as governor of Georgia is suspect; his program for the nation is vague and inconsistent; he did not develop a philosophy but a gimmick. The Crimson cites Jimmy Carter for "elusiveness," yet proclaims that his program "remains, fundamentally, a plan devised in the tradition of the Democratic Party." No. He has given us not a plan, but rhetoric in the best tradition of the Democratic Party. No one ever promised us unemployment, economic recession, peace with dishonor, a polluted environment, ad nauseam. I would not expect Jimmy Carter to do so. But it remains to be seen what...