Word: hucksterism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...puritanism in a frankly physical rather than spiritual light. Readers may take this sleight to heart or turn it into a belly laugh. Either way, the sorcerer and his apprentice encounter a nation with more than its share of knaves and hypocrites, including the Reverend Huber, a stock evangelist huckster, and Mr. Phyllis, cooing host of a TV kiddie show who is a child molester offscreen...
...Dennis DeConcini (D., Ariz.), separately announced they would not run for re-election next year. Both have been tainted by scandal: Durenberger faces trial in January on fraud charges, and DeConcini was rebuked by the Senate ethics committee in 1991 for accepting campaign contributions from savings and loan huckster Charles Keating. They join three other Senators and 12 House members who will not run for re- election...
...salesmen have to believe that listening implies complicity -- that the moment a mark is seated across the living room, or has just picked up a phone, he has declared himself a co-conspirator in the scam. Ace huckster Ricky Roma (Al Pacino) knows this better than anyone else. Lately, Ricky has been the "closer," the high man on the company's totem pole. And Shelley Levene (Jack Lemmon) is the Loman. Vending his unplowed dreams, Shelley woos like a Don Juan of property values. But when the courtship is over or aborted, he looks old, depleted, desperate. He sweats...
...rallies, Robb is a duplicitous huckster. When protesters in Dubuque, Iowa, toss eggs at him, he responds with a verbal sally. "They are hypocrites!" he shouts. "They are liars. They talk about peace, but there is no peace over there. They are being built up by hatred." Then he tells his fans that they are on a "mission of love" at a "white Christian revival." With his message goes a commercial tie-in. Besides the usual Klan caps and T shirts and stickers, these rallies offer pricey Klan kitsch, like a ceramic statuette of a hooded Klansman whose eyes glow...
...sneering cynic, contemptuous of Mozart's "pretty" music, and the record company huckster, who likes "pretty" music because it sells, offer us two sides of the same worthless coin. They both depend on Forman's film and is assassination of Mozart the genius, the child prodigy whose music was great because it was the work of a great man. The film liberates us from what may be an illusionary image of Mozart, but leaves us with no reason to judge the music as worthwhile. The notion that the "voice of God" resides in the notes of this music carries little...