Word: hokey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...misery of others with an endearing sympathy. Ronnie is someone who knows other people's problems so well because he's managed to have many of those same problems himself. And as the infatuated teenager, Haddad reveals many of the silly yet sentimental aspects of puppy love without seeming hokey...
Yellowstone can seem grand and wild, or it can resemble a big, hokey theme park, an example of what happens when man meddles too much with nature. Policies shift with political winds, and under former National Park Service director William Penn Mott, a wolf enthusiast, Yellowstone officials pushed hard for the wolf's reintroduction. Now Mott has been replaced by fence-sitter James Ridenour, and political pressure is reaching Yellowstone. Two weeks ago, a traveling Park Service slide show on wolf reintroduction was canceled. An elaborate study asked for by Congress seems certain, when it is released at year...
...didn't care about domestic concerns, Leland said "I am as much a citizen of this world as I am of my country. To hell with those people who are critical of what I am able to do to help save peoples' lives. I don't mean to sound hokey, but I grew up on a Christian ethic which says we are supposed to help the least of our brothers...
There is nothing hokey about Bush's indignation. He has carried his reverence for the symbols of freedom on his sleeve as long as he has been in politics and used them a time or two for political advantage. Back in the presidential primary campaign of l988, Bush's field surveys showed that the controversy over requiring the Pledge of Allegiance in schools was a warm issue, the pro-Pledge stand wildly favored in many audiences. His visit to a New Jersey flag factory during the campaign drew some boos from the political commentators, but Bush never blushed...
...Welles was not made for that more contemporary medium, TV. His Falstaffian girth, so impressive on stage and screen, seemed grotesque when stuffed into the small tube. The voice that shivered the old Philco during the ( Depression sounded hokey when it was used to seduce would-be sophisticates of the '70s. "Paul Masson will sell no wine before its time" joined the fleeting body of marketing folklore and spun off into dozens of jokes. (In one, the Welles impersonator intones the line, glances at his watch and says impatiently, "It's time...