Word: hokeyness
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Bushnell has compared herself with Edith Wharton, which is awfully grandiose for someone who churns out sentences like "Welcome to the age of Un-Innocence. No one has breakfast at Tiffany's, and no one has affairs to remember." But despite hokey prose, she is valuable as an arch and knowing observer of her Chateau Latour-imbibing universe. She mostly avoids the temptation to lay it on too thick, never making her "characters" more absurd than they prove themselves to be. Mercifully too, she has the good sense never to venture beyond her demographic. Reporting on the world of size...
...Olympics are appealing to women not because of hokey scenes of swimmer Amanda Beard cuddling a teddy bear but rather because they used to be a pure communal event--of which there are so few--with moments of real sentiment and real heroism instead of the Oprah kind. They are one of the few times when TV celebrates hardworking role models instead of the self-absorbed doofuses on most of prime time and in big-time sports--and one when parents can watch with the kids without cringing at explicit sex scenes. That's more than enough reason to tune...
...Cambridge, you will not find the 1990s equivalent of Hokey-Pokey--the cheap ice cream sold by street vendors until the 1920's at a penny a lump. The trend among Harvard Square vendors is to offer more expensive, home-made, gourmet ice creams...
DIED. LARRY LAPRISE, 83, songwriter; in Boise, Idaho. LaPrise was playing ski lodges when he co-concocted the ideal entertainment for hyperactive children and rhythm-impaired adults: The Hokey Pokey (1949), which had a nation putting various extremities in, out and about. Big-band and heavy-metal versions followed--as LaPrise was hokey-pokeyed out of a fortune. Having sold his rights for a song, he became a postal worker...
WHAT WERE those hokey dancing taco-and-bell doing on the premiere of Dana Carvey's new comedy show two weeks ago--was this a plug or a parody of lead sponsor Taco Bell? It was hard to tell as the fast-food duo sang, "We're paying him a fortune to use our name, 'cause he's a shameless whore...