Word: hokeyness
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Harris-Moore, 6 ft. 5 in. (1.96 m), has become a legend in the Pacific Northwest - T-shirts bearing his face or the words "Fly, Colton, fly" are big sellers in Seattle - and on the Internet. His Facebook fan club has 8,000 members, and a hokey ballad on YouTube sings his praises. Harris-Moore's supporters see a deeper meaning to his popularity: During hard economic times, they say, why not celebrate a poor boy who robs from the island vacation homes of Seattle's dotcom gazillionaires? But Harris-Moore apparently steals just as often from Camano's ordinary...
...right about the time of Eckhart's first screen credit, but he, unlike Eckhart, never become a star. (There may be an issue involving a lack of hair. On his head.) Here Lynch plays Walter, a contractor from Billings, who drove all the way to Seattle for Burke's hokey seminar and, a few hours in, sensibly wants his money back. Burke has to practice some serious self-help voodoo to keep skeptical Walter on the hook, but eventually (it's an interminable seminar) he gets Walter to pull a photo of his 12-year...
...Marty Krofft live-action adventure show - about a man and his son and daughter who are trapped in a time-warp landscape of dinosaurs and talking lizards - that lasted for just 43 episodes on Saturday mornings in the mid-'70s. The series is recalled fondly for its hokey acting and the aliens whose costumes had visible zippers. But its puny pedigree doesn't eliminate it from big-screen retooling. Indeed, if a TV show from the '60s or '70s had a premise elementary enough to be pictured on a lunch-box lid, chances are it's recently been made into...
...need to catch people’s attention who are walking by.” Commanding a crowd should be a no problem for the group, which Miller describes as often “larger than life.” “I like to try to be hokey, especially for the kids,” Miller says. Accordingly, the tricks performed—cards going blank, disappearing coins and rope tricks—draw from the familiar canon of magic deeds. The mixed audience, made up of both Harvard students and local families, dictates a wide-ranging spectacle...
...Cezanne’s apples—tall traveling orders for such a brief collection. Yet this preponderance of bizarre images and places is compounded by Nilsson’s decision to emphasize her most unusual and least meaningful through the use of italics. Italicization in poetry is a hokey maneuver at the best of times; unlike in prose, it is susceptible to use, or rather misuse, as a means not to emphasize meaning but rather to draw attention to a phrase that the poet considers exceptional. Nilsson has a bad case of this affliction. In the closing poem...