Word: jokey
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...form as a producer, laying down beats for each number that are spare but never simplistic, and that reverberate with menace, like footsteps following you down an alleyway late at night. The verbal flow on the album is involving and smooth; there's a smart mix of jokey lines ("In a room full of crackers/ I might cut the cheese," runs one passage on the track "Redbull") and serious statements. One section on "I Can't Go to Sleep" laments "Somebody raped our women/ murdered our babies/ hit us with the crack and guns/ in the early...
...situation is Randy Credico, an activist from New York. Credico also happens to be a middle-aged standup comic, who's performed in Vegas and does a Mickey Rooney impression even when he isn't asked for it. Earlier this year he served as campaign manager in the jokey bid for the New York Senate of Al Lewis, a perennial Manhattan character-about-town most famous for playing Grandpa on TV's "The Munsters...
...When will political writers and other media types stop using "Survivor" as an all-purpose jokey metaphor for national affairs...
...attacked the industry for what he said is the declining physical quality of children's books and a lack of risk-taking by increasingly "monstrous" publishing houses. He characterized the look of new authors' children's books as "jokey, cheap, winking at the grownups...
...fitting. Look at any recent film by the Former Artist Known as Coppola. Check your local theater marquee, where endless variations of the same $100 million jokey-action movie are displayed. Or consider that the company making the most maverick pictures today, Miramax, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Disney. It's enough to make you want to stay home and read a book...