Word: hokey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...little hokey, no doubt, but then this prodding message seems to have less in common with the nihilism of the punk movement than with the more expansive hippie movement of the sixties. Husker Du's true roots, as this album and their single "Eight Miles High" demonstrate, are set firmly within psychedelia. You can hear it in Mould's leads, which seem to have timewarped in from songs like the Beatles' "I'm Only Sleeping" or the Byrds' "Eight Miles High." You can hear it in the tinkling harmonies and the choruses of songs like "Pink Turns to Blue...
Unlike most politicians, Reagan is able to wrap himself in the flag without seeming hokey or opportunistic...
Ninety-nine percent of the rock videos are musically insipid, banal and worthless. A good song does not need hokey visuals to give it meaning...
There was some stiltedness (does Schlesinger actually pontificate so?) and show boating (TV Journalist Hodding Carter, who played a senior adviser, may be too well-trained), but such behavior is not unknown at NSC meetings. In all, The Crisis Game, with its snare-drum theme, was just hokey enough to entertain and good enough to edify...
...this second go at the Long Island nightmare does offer some improvements over its predecessor. We are spared until the end the embarrassingly hokey bleeding walls and talking rooms. And buried somewhere in the rubble is something approaching a theme...