Word: hokum
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...Dead End and Men in White. Wherever it can, the play lets truth walk side by side with good theater, but in a pinch it is always theater that has right of way. Among other things, Detective Story pleads that mercy should season justice. But too often it lets hokum season realism, and raises salient questions only to provide inconclusive answers...
...tune in Argentina, had handed Perón a list of demands. Among them: 1) make Evita drop all political activity; 2) form a new cabinet retaining only War Minister Humberto Sosa Molina, Foreign Minister Juan Atilio Bramuglia and Interior Minister Angel C. Borlenghi; 3) forget the foreign policy hokum of a "third position"-between the capitalist U.S. and Communist Russia-and patch up relations with the U.S. and Britain; 4) take immediate steps to stop inflation...
With a baseball Barnum's flair for profitable hokum, Bill Veeck touched a match to Lou Boudreau's old contract, and grinned while the flames consumed it. Then 31-year-old Lou Boudreau signed a new, two-year contract as player-manager of the Cleveland Indians. Neither Boudreau nor the Indians' President Veeck was telling the exact salary, but they encouraged guesses of about $65,000 a year...
...Accused is well constructed, well acted and less weighted with hokum than most psychological thrillers. It common-sensically concedes that a smart cop who knows crimes and criminals could outwit an equally smart psychologist who doesn't. As the cop, Wendell Corey, a comparative newcomer from Broadway, not only steals scenes from Movie Veterans Young and Cummings, but also makes the semi-villain so real and likable that audiences may feel the heroine has won the second-best...
...hokum this. In early 1945, Major Wyatt ("Rat-top") Exum, then deputy commander of the 325th Fighter Group based at Lesina Airdrome in Italy, while returning from a fighter sweep over German-infested, mountainous Hungary, brashly landed his P-31D, wheels down, on a handkerchief of flat land bisected by a deep ditch, to rescue an uninjured squadron mate who had crash-landed his ship with an overheated engine...