Word: hoke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such a metaphor is available in Driving Miss Daisy. If you look hard, you can find in this account of the 25-year relationship between Daisy Werthan (Jessica Tandy), a genteel Southern, Jewish matriarch, and her black chauffeur, Hoke Colburn (Morgan Freeman), a microcosmic study of changing racial attitudes in a crucial time and place (Atlanta, circa 1948-73). What you will not find in this marvelously understated movie is overtly inspirational comments on that subject, broad sentimentality or the slightest pomposity about its own mission. In other words, Alfred Uhry's adaptation of his Pulitzer-prizewinning play aspires more...
Director Bruce Beresford's tone is cool and shadowy -- like Miss Daisy's fine old house. Hoke is introduced into it by her son Boolie (Dan Aykroyd, displaying full credentials as an actor), when at 72 Miss Daisy careers her car into a neighbor's yard. She has objections, suspicions. She harbors -- yes -- more racial prejudice than she has ever been forced to admit...
...Hoke is a wise and patient man. And Miss Daisy is a woman worthy of those qualities. She may be comically set in her small ways, but she casts a shrewd eye on her immediate world. As she ages, that world shrinks, so that Hoke looms ever larger within it. As a result, she is forced to think harder about the growing civil rights struggle than she might otherwise have. An encounter with menacing red-neck cops on a country road, the bombing of her synagogue, a distant but moving exposure to the force of Martin Luther King...
...after Tiedge turned up in East Germany, West German authorities arrested Margarete Hoke, 50, a secretary for the past 21 years in the office of the Federal President, on suspicion of spying for East Germany. Officials said that Hoke had first met an East German agent named Franz Becker in 1968 and had recently been spotted making contact with him in Copenhagen. A few days after Hoke was picked up, Swiss authorities in Lucerne arrested an East German couple, Johann and Ingeborg Hubner, who were believed to be linked to Hoke...
Robot Redford, remotely controlled and made of fiber glass and aluminum, will march in the academic procession, but will not be dressed in gown and mortarboard. "We don't want to hoke it up," says Sara Gilbert, a spokesman for the college. The address will be delivered from the wings to the robot's speaker by its creator Bill Bakaleinikoff. Says he of his creation: "As soon as Robot gets ten minutes into his speech, they'll forget that he's a robot. Afterward they'll probably take him to the local malt shop...