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Word: hokey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movie or a comicbook or one of your own daydreams fly apart, letting you know what both the heroes and the cowards really heard when death flew at them: WHHHHHHHONNNNNNK!" He describes a hailstorm in a forest: "Instead of whispering or talking, the woods now seemed alive with hokey B-movie jungle drums." At last they find the body, and Lachance speculates about how they must appear to the corpse, if it could see: "Like pallbearers in a horror movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Master of Postliterate Prose | 8/30/1982 | See Source »

...never have achieved living above a cat house with his degenerate father. Second he learns about the price of integrity, avoiding false emotionalism in his early relationship with Paula. Third, he discovers that he can combine these with true friendship and generosity. In a subplot that could have become hokey, but somehow doesn't Mayo provides the final burst of encouragement a lone female trainee needs to prove herself physically capable of making the grade...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Growing Up In The Navy | 8/6/1982 | See Source »

...album ends as the concerts did, with a rather hokey taped excerpt from Jim Hendrix's "Star Spangled Banner." The message in person was. "No encore, but isn't this a funny cryptic way of ending the show?" Reassuring, however, is Jagger's last line before the distorted guitar begins. "Thank yew..See yew next year--bah bah!" Gray hair and all, that would be nice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Still Living | 6/25/1982 | See Source »

...seniors, the last time the Harvard hokey team made the playoffs, you were occupied almost entirely with boyfriends and girlfriends and learning a few things about introductory biology. Yeah, that's right, 10th grade...

Author: By Michael Bass, | Title: Icemen to Meet Dartmouth Tonight; Win Will Guarantee Playoff Spot | 3/6/1982 | See Source »

...that the Harvard Icemen didn't do a whole lot of it on their own. They did, outscoring the opposition 17-0 over the weekend and running their unanswered goal string to 21 through seven periods. The Harvard hokey team his packed a big punch over the last three-and-a-half weeks, give or take a bad night in New Haven. But for each goal they've scored, for each jab at the opposition, the fans at Bright have been barely one chin-cruncher behind...

Author: By Michael Bass, | Title: Fans, Icemen Keep Playoff Hopes Alive | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

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