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...damn mad," he insisted, looking pained. But speaking in Cupertino, Calif., the day before, Reagan had simply scoffed at "that pack of pessimists roaming the land" and turned up his red-white-and-blue rhetoric. He was able to inspire the crowds with slogans and phrases that would sound hokey from others. "Let's make America great again and let the eagle soar," he told the fervent, flag-waving crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Smelling the Big Kill | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

...party faithful at the Dallas Convention Center and millions of television viewers? Desperate to add spice to their celebration of the Administration's first term, G.O.P. strategists briefly considered pumping up their mild ideological divisions into full-fledged floor battles. But the idea was eventually rejected as hokey. Says Washington Lobbyist William Timmons, who has played a major role in every G.O.P. Convention since 1968: "We will have a clean, crisply paced, well-managed demonstration of Republican unity... There will be some powerful messages, well presented. But whether anyone will listen-well, we have to hold our audience somehow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coronation in Prime Time | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

...little hokey, no doubt, but then this prodding message seems to have less in common with the nihilism of the punk movement than with the more expansive hippie movement of the sixties. Husker Du's true roots, as this album and their single "Eight Miles High" demonstrate, are set firmly within psychedelia. You can hear it in Mould's leads, which seem to have timewarped in from songs like the Beatles' "I'm Only Sleeping" or the Byrds' "Eight Miles High." You can hear it in the tinkling harmonies and the choruses of songs like "Pink Turns to Blue...

Author: By Marek D. Waldorf, | Title: Revitalized Psychedelia | 7/27/1984 | See Source »

Unlike most politicians, Reagan is able to wrap himself in the flag without seeming hokey or opportunistic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yankee Doodle Candidate | 6/25/1984 | See Source »

Ninety-nine percent of the rock videos are musically insipid, banal and worthless. A good song does not need hokey visuals to give it meaning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 16, 1984 | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

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