Word: hokum
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...local theme parks that rate a visit: notably Marriott's Great America in Santa Clara, Calif.; Nashville's Opryland, celebrating every mode of American music; and even the revivified Coney Island. They all offer an escape for a day-or two-into a world of myth and hokum, melody and bang-bang, insubstantial pageants and cloud-capp'd towers...
...seem destined to do little to restore his lost respect. As TIME correspondents probed public reaction to the show, they found an overwhelming majority of viewers still as turned off by Nixon as ever. Many even wondered whether Nixon's limited apologia was heartfelt or merely Checkers-style hokum...
...much like the whitewashed cornflakes of the original. He spliced in stock avalanche footage, inserted some cretinous English dialogue (sample: "There's no food left ... What are we going to do?"), added a bombastic score, and cut the original by about one-third. The film is ignoble, demeaning hokum. Nevertheless, Paramount has spent $1 million to promote...
Political conventions may not be as crass and boss-ridden as they once were, but they are just as synthetic in an up-to-date show-biz way. Newsmen used to armor themselves against the hokum by reporting it in the cynically fond style of amused outrage made popular by H.L. Mencken. That tone is harder to sustain these days, and a good many reporters and editors are now asking whether they are covering conventions in the right...
Just Me. His long-anticipated announcement was pure Bayh: a mixture of hokum and humility. Followed by two busloads of staff and press, he traveled around Indiana. The first stop was the family farm in Shirkieville (pop. 40). As he gazed over his 340 acres, Bayh brooded: "I think it's fair to say that I have really felt closer to my God right out here in these fields, doing the kinds of things most of us enjoy doing." He even confided that he did not have a "burning desire" to be President. The next stop, at Indianapolis, brought...