Word: hokey
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...compete against one another in a series of games and races that are cunningly devised to make the participants look like idiots-generally through the simple expedient of putting grease on one or more of the obstacles they are called to surmount. These revels are surrounded by a hokey Superbowl atmosphere-bands, cheerleaders, a team of "sportscasters" who "analyze" the action and conduct inane interviews with the participants. It is all awful, as attempts to turn the sadistic impulse into comedy always...
Among other things, Harvard Square is the home of nearly a half dozen full-fledged "greasy spoons"--low-budget, fast food places. The food in these establishments is generally cheap, and you usually get what you pay for. The decor in most is hokey and the scene raunchy, but when you are going out of your mind for something to eat at some weird hour of the day, or, if you are just plain sick of eating dining hall food, keep them in mind...
...long-running Jeopardy!, which requires contestants to supply the questions to tough answers, is marred mainly by Host Art Fleming's incessant administration of extreme unctiousness. Match Game 74, daytime's top-rated show, has hokey-jokey questions (What did the cannibal say when he finished off Euell Gibbons?) but is graced by the relaxed presence of Gene Rayburn, the most palatable of the hosts...
...Southerners, Flowers and Trent Lott, though on opposite sides, spoke with the easy fluidity and courtesy of their heritage. Mezvinsky was the new boy, carefully following the mood and model of his elders, Cohen the engagingly gawky bright boy of the class. Missouri's Hungate, full of sometimes slightly hokey Ozark folklore, designated himself the comic, just as California...
Lady from Shanghai (1947), by Orson Welles, starring Orson Welles, Everett Sloane and Rita Hayworth, is Orson Welles's most intriguing film. Citizen Kane, of course, is more innovative, and Lady from Shanghai is often hokey. But the trial scene, where coughs are treated as major events, or the hall of mirrors scene (when seen on a big screen) are so amazing that they carry the movie...