hokum

There is a catch though: If the bought card is an ace of spades in the second round and the player wants to set the game as Hokum, you can't use the strong cards with the spade: You have either the club or heart or diamond.

For the fifth chapter, "The Jumpin' Jive," Birnbaum explores jump jazz, scat, hokum jazz (including jug bands), and harmony singing groups.

So the Glasgow band's album Hokum may sound frayed round the edges but there's more soul in it than all the X Factor circus.

Nor will refusing to post said hokum on your profile open you to any new privacy violations, it added.

And when Bettany is in full flow Legion just about convinces as a piece of horror/action hokum. But sadly when the action pauses and the long talky scenes kick in you realise the film is essentially a leaden fantasy flick whose one cool concept - an angel protecting mankind from God's wrath - is submerged in recycled genre fluff.

A bit of holiday hokum here, a serious orchestral piece there, a singalong and so on, and before you know it, the afternoon's over and the audience is all-out, Pops-prepped for the festivities ahead.

Overall, it's quite a good quality piece of hokum, making for a diverting evening in damp Wolverhampton.

HASHEMITE HOKUM (The Wall Street Journal, New York)

Similarly, Patterson has omitted the fact that Hughes's famous 1926 essay, "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain," grounded in the notion that black art was not only propagandistic but also was subversively folk-based in being so, was his answer to the conservatism of George Schuyler's "The Negro-Art Hokum," Hughes's text appearing in The Nation the week after Schuyler's.

Hokum: An Anthology of African American Humor Edited by Paul Beatty Bloombury Publishing, February 2006 $29.95, ISBN 1-582-34434-5

She wore shoes dyed the color of her suits and she gave us the most productive writing exercises--here's three words: raccoon, purse, swim--now write a 50-word story using those words--and she had a favorite (Kim Hokum) who wrote about soccer.

There we encounter more of the same unsatisfying blend of sharp production values and Hollywood hokum. In the middle of an exhibit about Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a bulky gentleman wearing cornrows and a blazer labeled "Special Police" comes up in Spinelli, grinning sheepishly.

The only man able to stop the robots is Sky Captain of the 'Flying Legion.' The story is pure hokum. But it is the fun hokum of 'Buck Rodgers,' 'The Shadow' and all those other fantasy stories of the 1930s.

As with other artists' work that engages issues of faith, Houshiary's is vulnerable to the kind of readings where the complex social and philosophical histories of specific religions are glossed in favor of easily digestible, generalized rhetoric around "the spiritual." The gallery announcement for the recent show, for instance, tritely describes Houshiary's process as a "slow dance around the canvas," with which she engages "by bending into it as if in prayer." Such treatments have more than a whiff of exoticizing hokum about them and do no favors for a strong and serious practice.

I could perhaps tolerate a little bit of mixed-up editorial belching, but gee whiz, Brian Doherty: "cornpone hokum" in Branson, Missouri, that "difficult little state." As a native of the area (not an Assembler), I have to defend it.