| Ball writes clearly and is socko with graphs, but I found his arguments utterly unconvincing. |
| And no recommendation, not even a socko review, can necessarily make you show up more than once. |
| A socko science-fiction feature, as fearsome as a film as was the Orson Welles 1938 radio interpretation... it's sock entertainment of hackle-raising quality. |
| You really do expect every one of his scores to be a buffo, socko, holy-cow kind of score, and that's a tough assignment to do on a regular basis. |
| In books, there's a perilously thin line, as they used to say on Broadway, between a socko and a floperoo. |
| The Beatles, who played in clubs long before they released their first single, knew that songs with a climax, a point, a socko finish, were guaranteed audience-goosers. |
