Word: jingoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...savagery in songs like New York Minute and If Dirt Were Dollars ("I was flyin' back from Lubbock/ I saw Jesus on the plane/ . . . or maybe it was Elvis/ You know, they kinda look the same"), and a memorably nasty cameo portrait of Ronald Reagan as a cowboy named Jingo in Little Tin God. That's vintage Henley, delivered with a snarl and a smile, but The Heart of the Matter, which ends the record, is the struggle for a different sense of place, another state of grace: "I've been tryin' to get down to the heart...
Avildsen doesn't care about Stallone's jingo-juggernaut. "I felt the character wasn't developed much more," he says of subsequent Rockys. In Avildsen's two Karate Kid pictures, the characters have stayed closer to the earth, closer to the turf Avildsen understands. Cinematic integrity? "I think your integrity has a direct link to your check book," Avildsen says...
Predictably, even the Theatricals seem to have been infected with Rambomania, squeezing the word "America" into its sentence twice. Jingo, jingo...
...Bless America, but sings it so thinly and tentatively that the hymn becomes not an affirmation of the nation but a wistful dirge, the memory of something that the war destroyed. Today, the tones of patriotism in entertainment are loud and clear and sometimes tinny with the sound of jingo...
...Viet Nam, the last irreclaimable body count. The nation also misplaced many thousands of men and women who did make it home. To embrace them now may be a complicated, belated and awkward exercise, but it should be done-done with a clear historical eye, without pity or jingo or other illusions. It would mitigate an injustice and might even improve the nation's collective mental health. It would help to settle America's tedious quarrel with itself. Americans should be able to repeat Robert Lowell's line in a calm inward murmur: "My eyes have seen...