But the lure of Hollywood and full-scale movies re-beckoned and the result was the political thriller The Falcon And The Snowman (1985), followed by a dismal piece of hokum shot in Canada, The Believers (1987), which Schlesinger co-produced.
Talking-shops, such as the current crop of top-heavy reform committees, are known around the world for their tendency to drift into bureaucratic hokum.
And yet another student said that she had "an uncomfortable feeling" about raising her hand and arguing "with a professor who voted for it" and who tried to justify his vote in the classroom.To put it nicely, this is hokum.
Equally hokum is the NODE's concomitant argument that to (as in "Star Trek") boldly go conveys a different emphasis than to go boldly; it is true of that one phrase, but only because it has entered the language.
There are simply too many of them; and there are also too few younger workers to replace them.The once fashionable idea that boomers will quit their jobs to "discover themselves" or to pursue new careers is hokum.
An ability to rise above it and project sincerity amid the hokum is a skill not to be under-rated.
And after that he would jump 40,000 feet from a plane, without a parachute, and land in a haystack; just pick the haystack.It was all hokum, but the public loved the dare.
Mr Chirac's party, he says, which is not in central power but does control some regional bodies that distribute cash to town halls.It may be hokum.
Opponents say this is hokum; the proposition is really about the unrestricted spread of gambling in the state.California created its own gaming operation in 1985 with a ballot measure, approved by voters, which allowed a state lottery.
But for at least two centuries there have been claims that they wreak more subtle havoc too on the earth's climate.The claims have mostly ranged from the tenuous to the hokum.
In the course of his brief press conference, Mr Gore hid behind this lawyer's hokum no fewer than six times.And so Mr Gore has become a modern Icarus: he flew to the top of politics behind a shameless president, and ended up getting burnt.
