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With that kind of competition, it is no surprise that blurb inflation is spinning out of control. Superlatives, even when they mean little, are tossed out indiscriminately ("best comedy of the year" in February). A reference to the new decade always sounds impressive ("the love story of the '90s"). Gary Franklin, of Los Angeles' KCOP-TV, grades films on a 1-to-10 scale that can no longer contain his ecstasy. Chaplin and Alive! recently got a 10+, and Beauty and the Beast even managed an 11. Pat Collins, who reviews for New Jersey's WWOR-TV, gushes that Falling...
...authored by Ted Gaebler, a consultant and former city manager, the book has sold 70,000 copies since its publication last February and has had a profound influence on policymakers around the country. "This book should be read by every elected official in America," Clinton gushed for a blurb on the dust jacket. "Those of us who want to revitalize government in the 1990s are going to have to reinvent it. This book gives us the blueprint...
...capacity crowd at the Loeb Janus Cinema last night bought their popcorn and Diet Cokes, soundly booed a blurb for Whitney Houston's new movie, and settled in for Spike Lee's new 3-hour-and-21-minute epic...
...World's Fair, then to Washington, where she joined the staff of Senator Eugene McCarthy. Was she McCarthy's press secretary, as the book jacket on her biography of Jackie Onassis claimed? "She was a good receptionist," said McCarthy, but she also handed out press releases. The jacket blurb was later revised...
They decided to close the book with a passage about Hoffman's funeral, chock-full of warm, touchy-feely stories about those assembled there. Included are upbeat lyrics of a Pete Seeger song about Abbie's spirt living on and a nice blurb about Abbie's mom clapping...