Word: hokeyness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...collection of 12 children's classics all done up in Little Richard's flagrantly flamboyant style. He turns On Top of Spaghetti into a rhythm-and-blues lament, raps his way through If You're Happy and You Know It and performs a funky, fanny-wiggling version of The Hokey Pokey...
...Bush skipped gingerly around any discussion of the economy in his 56- min. speech. And the centerpiece of his economic proposals was a familiar package of tax cuts he has proposed to Congress several times before, supplemented by a hokey plan to allow taxpayers to donate up to 10% of their income tax payments to reducing the federal debt...
...Showtime. Because the small screen has laxer standards for comedy (after all . . . Full House?), you may briefly indulge the strenuously facetious antics, the wisenheimer narration, the cameos by John Travolta and John Candy. Soon, though, the adventure parody gets painful -- a kind of Traitors of the Lost Aardvark. Hokey smoke, what's next? Ted Danson as Clutch Cargo...
Damn. Or hot damn, depending on your tolerance for show-biz artifice and nonspontaneous combustion. Brooks is a pretty fair songwriter and a hokey holy terror of a performer. He has a solid, pleasant voice -- short on character and totally short-changed on funk -- and he's possessed of a mean weather eye for the prevailing winds of showbiz. He went to Oklahoma State University on a partial athletic scholarship ("Athletics always kept me in school") and majored in advertising and marketing. That background, competitive and commercially calculated, gave him a cool edge when he was ready to make...
...first group, the Callbacks, opened with a crowd-pleasing--but very hokey--tap-dance routine that included a barely audible scat solo. The group's musical selection improved markedly with their second song, the Rolling Stones' "As Tears Go By," ending on an "ooooooh" that seemed to last a good half hour...