Word: ballyhooing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SUPER BOWL BALLYHOO, HYPE, HOOPLA & HUBBUB...
...decision to accept him officially as a teacher, not just a visiting lecturer, has given him a new credential for his lucrative speechmaking and perhaps even his contract with ABC. Will would be a fool, and he certainly isn't one, if he or his agent did not ballyhoo his appointment to Harvard as further evidence of his credibility...
Several days before he shocked the world by becoming the most potent opposition figure in Russia, Vladimir Zhirinovsky stood in Moscow's largest department store to ballyhoo his candidacy for his nation's first freely elected parliament. In the midst of denouncing Boris Yeltsin's reform program, Zhirinovsky, 47, abruptly turned away from his audience, marched to a lingerie counter and seized an expensive brassiere. Twirling it on his fingers, he proclaimed that if he were voted into office, he would provide cheap underwear for his constituents...
...charter subscribers to Tony Randall's National Actors Theater sat debating how much longer they could be patient as the company evolves from the third-rate productions of its first season to the mostly second-rate ones now. The women never expected anything quite as glorious as the marketing ballyhoo: America's best actors performing the world's greatest plays. But as one said, "We're guinea pigs." Although they grumblingly concluded they would renew, their conversation reflected the low stature N.A.T. has attained, save for an intelligent, innovative The Seagull. This "national" troupe is like a middling regional theater...
...Security taxes. Not to be outdone by the Democrats, Senate Republican Phil Gramm of Texas and House minority whip Newt Gingrich of Georgia introduced wide-ranging legislation that repeated the Bush Administration's cherished call for reduced capital gains taxes. But a skeptical public remained unimpressed by all the ballyhoo and maneuvering. In a TIME/CNN poll by the firm Yankelovich Clancy Shulman last week, 77% of the 500 adults surveyed said they considered discussion of a tax cut for the middle class an election-year gimmick...