Word: hokey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mother, why not?), barely containable to his men, the bane of Hephaestion's existence, Aristotle's worst pupil, and so forth. Who will ever know? There is a sentence on the final wall of the exhibition: "The search continues . . ." It provides the exhibition's one hokey moment, and it is also misleading, suggesting as it does that a continuing search for Alexander will yield something. The tomb may be unearthed eventually, but not Alexander. If all that marble and gold do not reveal him, neither will his bones...
...film is full of attractive young performers. And there is a low-keyed conflict between them and a faculty that is trying to discipline their exuberance without stifling their spirits. If the film had concentrated on that instead of on hokey melodrama, it might have been far more engaging and truer to life...
...halcyon days of Kansas City jazz have gone forever, and the sad scraps of film that survive--hokey period pieces which show these great musicians transformed by the miracle of Hollywood into grinning antebellum darkies who sway to the beat of their most commercial pieces--obviously fail to recover the real spirit of the era. The Last of the Blue Devils is no substitute for the films that a more perfect world would have made in those days. Most of the Kansas City players have passed their prime, and much of their music has become cliched and formulaic. But Ricker...