More than thirty years later, the play, refurbished with a coherent psychological subtext, seems clearly more than metaphysical hokum.
Much of it was probably hokum cooked up by paranoids and far-right crazies.
The larger point is that the claim that CEOs are routinely paying lower rates than their secretaries is Omaha hokum.
In the course of his brief press conference, Mr Gore hid behind this lawyer's hokum no fewer than six times.
Why spoil that with some metaphor hokum about opening books or doors?
But underneath the stylistic brio, what we get is a lean video game scenario and a dash of prime Hollywood hokum, engaging enough for what it is.
Even the star of the evening, an admiral, had nothing new to say, or, rather, what he did have to say was, we all sensed, ripe hokum.
After the surprisingly dry and commercially disappointing First Strike, Chan returned to his usual goofy acrobatic hokum in Mr. Nice Guy, but kept the Hollywood production values intact.
But as an antidote to hokum, the authors' mission to help you "descend into better-informed cynicism" to find the "least dysfunctional" of all possible dysfunctional orgs is the kind of literary stock that pays greater dividends.
And I'll say this: even if the movie's logic ultimately spirals down into a vortex of hysteria, horror and hokum, I enjoyed the bulldozer intensity of the climax, which barely keeps a lid on the crackpot cult movie that's wrestling for the soul of this multimillion dollar blockbuster.
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