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...time Cherlynn Mathias was ready to blow the whistle on Dr. Michael McGee two years ago, it had been clear for quite a while that something fishy was going on. For one thing, there were the hokey infomercials touting his experimental vaccine for malignant melanoma, a particularly nasty form of cancer, as if it were a Veg-O-Matic. Thanks to the vaccine, a patient declared onscreen, my cancer is in total remission. Then there was the sales pitch McGee delivered in person. When she and the doctor met with a prospective patient, says Mathias, who worked as his research...
...enjoy being miserable, do not buy Great Big Sea’s fifth album, Sea of No Cares and certainly do not listen to it. As cliched and hokey as it sounds, I literally have not been able to stop my toe from tapping or my mouth from smiling since I first put the CD into my E drive and cranked up the volume...
...recent outbreak of stomach sickness among Dunster and Mather House residents serves as an important reminder of how dependent we undergraduates are on Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) for our daily meals. Complain though we may about the hokey table tent slogans and the persistent tri-weekly presence on our dinner menu of such culinary atrocities as General Wong’s Chicken, habit and our mandatory $3,792 a year unlimited meal plan continue to drive us day after day into the hallowed halls of HUDS. Yet House dining in its present form is costly, inefficient, restrictive...
Harvard hasn’t always been so hostile to Hollywood. Numerous scenes from Love Story, the hokey 1970 film starring Ali McGraw and Ryan O’Neal, take place right in Harvard Yard. The movie strove to portray an aristocratic Harvard but was filmed in the midst of peace movements and student protests, so actual students had to remain in their dorm rooms while costumed extras walked through the Yard...
...Yourself” is the rare example that could stand alone as a radio-worthy single—guitars whine into action over a tactile bass line, and the plaintive pop vocals provide a memorable hook. “That Ole Sun” spins hokey lyrics into a mid-tempo tune that would have been at home with tambourine accompaniment back in the Summer of Love. “Hide in the Light” follows this retro motif, a contrast of classic sound and cynical modern sensibility...