Word: jokey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shape a coda for the '60s by shoring up all the cliches of a generation ("love," "freedom," "amazing grace," "lonely crowd") and firing them off like salvos. The song becomes unwieldy, but its graceful melody rescues it. Henley and Frey have better luck closer to home, in the jokey, hokey bacchanal of The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks or the sly ironies of The Disco Strangler (a collaboration with String Player Don Felder) and King of Hollywood, in which a hard-hustling mogul is nailed neatly in two fleet lines: "He's just another power junky...
...affair and its meaning with tenderness and concern. Gone too are the jokes about his deprived childhood in Brooklyn. Isaac Davis has, it appears, absorbed his early life; the present is oppressive enough for him to try to cope with. Even the preoccupation with the silence of God (jokey but overt) and with death are missing. We can only guess that Isaac still occasionally broods on these matters since, as Allen says, "death is the big obsession behind all the things I've done." But "in this picture it seems to be more integrated into the drama; it is less...
...long-running Jeopardy!, which requires contestants to supply the questions to tough answers, is marred mainly by Host Art Fleming's incessant administration of extreme unctiousness. Match Game 74, daytime's top-rated show, has hokey-jokey questions (What did the cannibal say when he finished off Euell Gibbons?) but is graced by the relaxed presence of Gene Rayburn, the most palatable of the hosts...