Word: hogwash
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...characters that Harnick and Bock have created condone social stereotypes of men and women: Eve is interested in her gardening, while Adam, with echoes of My Fair Lady's Henry Higgins, thinks Eve's emotions are "sentimental hogwash...
...second objection to Jerk is that humor does not qualify as art. Hogwash. Tell Charles Dickens and Mark Twain, two of history's best and most innovative humorists, that their works hold no artistic value...
...arrive committed to U.S. values; that is part of what attracted them. Says Julian Simon, professor of business administration at the University of Maryland: "The life and institutions here shape immigrants and not vice versa. This business about immigrants changing our institutions and our basic ways of life is hogwash. It's nativist scare talk...
...Donald Clark, chairman of Household International. "We just overlooked major problems like drugs and our schools." Elmer Johnson, a , former executive vice president of General Motors, says, "The financial wizards of wheeling, dealing and acquisitions brought their bags of tricks, but they turned out to be a lot of hogwash. The main concern should have been, Who's minding the store?" Observes William Weisz, vice chairman of Motorola: "The kind of issues we have are survival issues. The competitive environment is going to get much tougher. Tremendous battles will have to be fought. If we don't succeed, America will...
Outside the courtroom, Rifkin warned that the widespread use of ice-minus would lead to all sorts of natural disasters, including the disruption of rainfall patterns. (Lindow and his backers say this is hogwash. They note that the ice-fighting bacteria, developed into a commercial product called Frostban, was sprayed on a test field in 1987. As they predicted, it proved harmless.) Typically, Rifkin would plunge into a scientific setting, armed with papers from dissident researchers, and warn about the potentially catastrophic consequences of inadequately regulated research. Says geneticist Zinder: "The accusations are made simply, with simple words...