Word: hokeyness
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There is nothing hokey about Bush's indignation. He has carried his reverence for the symbols of freedom on his sleeve as long as he has been in politics and used them a time or two for political advantage. Back in the presidential primary campaign of l988, Bush's field surveys showed that the controversy over requiring the Pledge of Allegiance in schools was a warm issue, the pro-Pledge stand wildly favored in many audiences. His visit to a New Jersey flag factory during the campaign drew some boos from the political commentators, but Bush never blushed...
...Welles was not made for that more contemporary medium, TV. His Falstaffian girth, so impressive on stage and screen, seemed grotesque when stuffed into the small tube. The voice that shivered the old Philco during the ( Depression sounded hokey when it was used to seduce would-be sophisticates of the '70s. "Paul Masson will sell no wine before its time" joined the fleeting body of marketing folklore and spun off into dozens of jokes. (In one, the Welles impersonator intones the line, glances at his watch and says impatiently, "It's time...
...Army helmet and clutching a machine gun, tried to look like the militarist he isn't at a General Dynamics plant outside Detroit last week. It was difficult to tell whether the queasy expression came from his bumpy ride in an M1 tank or his disdain for hokey photo ops. But he was ready to sacrifice dignity in the service of his theme. The message: Dukakis is tough on defense...
...while inverting some earlier writing about Picasso -- hagiography of the goat god, by members of his claque -- Huffington produces something just as hokey. She comes on like a cross between Marabel Morgan and Mme. Defarge. She is out to avenge all of the women in his life -- "goddesses and doormats," in Picasso's nasty phrase -- except his late widow Jacqueline Roque, whom she denounces. Her biography becomes an interminable pecking session, to the point where she even finds fault with Picasso for becoming rich. "It took a lot of money to keep Picasso in bohemia," sneers the author...
Despite the flaws, P.S. Your Cat is Dead comes out well. O'Keefe and Condon make a good comic duo, projecting a lot of humor through a mediocre script. They wring sympathy out of moments that could be unbearably hokey. What it boils down to is, do you want surprises or do you want fun? Dead cats...