Word: hokey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...total Forty-Niner adoration. A record that recently arrived in the mail from home entitled, "Go Forty-Niners" blasts from our stereo system constantly. Although we tolerated almost any form of music--from opera to disco--this song has driven all of us away in despair. A cross between hokey Western nasal twanging and weak rock-and-roll, this particular fight song--coined especially for Sunday's big event--boasts cloying lyrics like, "Go Forty-Niners/Take it all the way/You can win the Super Bowl/And keep the trophy in the Bay. Houston, Dallas/Cincinnati too/You beat the best of them/And...
Russell, looking like the Hathaway Shirt Hit Man in his hokey eye-patch, fares a bit better, but even he can't seem to figure out whom he is supposed to be. And Pleasance looks thoroughly embarrassed by his fate, as he lugs his fleshy body across the screen. (Question #1: Why is it that the people who play the President in movies always look like Adlai Stevenson? Question #2: If Adlai looked so much like a president, why did he always lose...
Like the set and lighting design, the other elements of the production suffer more form misconception than from poor quality. Kean has her actors play their scenes broadly, often replacing tragedy with hokey melodrama, inspiring peals of unintentional laughter from the audience...
...mind a bloated, brick-covered DC-9, except that when "stacked" (as the space people say) on the launch pad with its enormous fuel tank and two crayon-shaped rocket boosters, it forms a surreal ensemble that could easily be passed off as the Intergalactic Hilton in a hokey sci-fi movie...
...great deal of hokey art has been made in the service of excellent causes...