Word: hokeyness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...1980s). Even in recent years they have devoted less than 2% of their research-and-devel opment budgets to electric and other alternative-fuel vehicles. Admits GM's vice president of advanced engineering Donald Runkle (although something of an electric buff himself): "They're kind of funny and hokey with these strange electric noises, always buzzing, clicking and humming. There was always this image that they were just slow, dumpy golf carts...
Maybe, if you're in an adventurous mood, you'll slip off the expressway and visit hokey Midwest tourist sites like the Call of the Wild Museum or the largest free standing crucifix in North America...
...EXPECT TO CONQUER THE title role in HAMLET -- only to provide fresh insight into a few scenes. Tom Hulce, whose varied work has been overshadowed by his gigglesome Mozart in the film Amadeus, specializes in ironic, self-deprecating intelligence that ought to meet that modest goal. But in a hokey production all too typical of Washington's Shakespeare Theater, Hulce fails to make the words sound sincere and obscures the political and revenge narratives with muddling about real-or-feigned madness. Francesca Buller comes as close as anyone can to bringing off Ophelia's breakdown, and Franchelle Stewart Dorn provocatively...
...dictator. Certainly his deeds are just as monstrous, and even more unfathomable. Directed by Ivan Passer, STALIN vividly chronicles the revolutionary footsoldier's rise to power and his ruthless, increasingly paranoid reign of terror. The scenes of Stalin's 1930s' purges are especially chilling, and the film gratifyingly avoids hokey re-creations of "big" historical events like the Yalta Conference. Still, despite Duvall's intense performance, the century's least charismatic evildoer remains a stubbornly opaque figure...
Perot's inexpensively produced ads -- usually featuring the candidate with a pointer and a set of charts -- were easy to make fun of. They were frequently sloppy: a Perot graphic in one referred to the "Forbes 500" instead of the Fortune 500. They used hokey, pseudojournalistic techniques: an interviewer in a pair of biographical ads set up the candidate with questions like "Ross, can you remember the first time that you spoke and people paid attention to what you said?" Often they were downright wacky. In his election-eve effort, Chicken Feathers, Deep Voodoo and the American Dream, Perot scoffed...