Word: hokey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chalmers, who took a year and a half off, will back next season, Fusco, whose claim on the title of the best collage hokey player should improve with Watson's defection to the Chicago Black Hawks this week, may be back and Blair, who guarded the net as the Class of '85 enjoyed its last hurrah will return after yet another scintillating stretch of playoff goaltending...
...liven up a dry presentation; more often an anonymous lecturer is aided only by crude graphics or amateurish dramatizations. Attempts to make the material more "visual" are frequently awkward. First Aid: The Video Kit, produced by the American Red Cross and CBS/ Fox Video, buries its valuable information amid hokey sketches in which two couples are instructed in proper first-aid techniques by a helpful neighbor...
...vagrant felicities in these films: a snap to the style of Tuff Turf; the bang-on casting of young actors with unassimilated Irish-American faces in Heaven Help Us; and in Vision Quest some nice quirks of dialogue and a lovely performance by Matthew Modine that makes the whole hokey business the tiniest bit affecting. But even to search for these privileged moments is to lower one's expectations to ankle level. It is like judging a taste-off among six Snickers bars...
...damn mad," he insisted, looking pained. But speaking in Cupertino, Calif., the day before, Reagan had simply scoffed at "that pack of pessimists roaming the land" and turned up his red-white-and-blue rhetoric. He was able to inspire the crowds with slogans and phrases that would sound hokey from others. "Let's make America great again and let the eagle soar," he told the fervent, flag-waving crowd...
...party faithful at the Dallas Convention Center and millions of television viewers? Desperate to add spice to their celebration of the Administration's first term, G.O.P. strategists briefly considered pumping up their mild ideological divisions into full-fledged floor battles. But the idea was eventually rejected as hokey. Says Washington Lobbyist William Timmons, who has played a major role in every G.O.P. Convention since 1968: "We will have a clean, crisply paced, well-managed demonstration of Republican unity... There will be some powerful messages, well presented. But whether anyone will listen-well, we have to hold our audience somehow...