Word: hooplah
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...draft to snap up Yi Jianlian, another seven footer from China - albeit a more athletic one who has been compared to NBA all-star (and German import) Dirk Nowitzki. And like Yao before him, he is already surrounded by a sense of intrigue and anticipation. Web sites from Hooplah... Nation-a blog dedicated to the New Jersey Nets-to ESPN and SI.com have already speculated endlessly on just how good Yi is, how old he is (Yi says 19, but some teammates from the Guangdong Tigers, the China Basketball Association team he plays for, say he?s 22),and most...
Enough has been written about the phenomena that Seattle bands have popularized this past year. Now that the flannel has stopped flying and the hooplah died down, most of the bands that capitalized on hailing from that grunge mecca have now crawled back into the second-rate clubs from whence they came...
What the crowd perhaps did not expect was that Joel, better known for his mellow pop and light-FM station reputation, would maintain a high-energy, high-impact show. He jammed, he gyrated, he tapdanced, he even stomped on his piano. This Joel planned to have fun despite the hooplah, and he let the whole crowd in on the joke with...
Secretaries at Harvard may find whatever hooplah their bosses remember to do today a bit ironic in the face of the Universities continued attempts to undermine their union. No matter. Accept the flowers graciously. Bosses are sort of slow. They need encouragement...
Strange as it may seem, this attitude, amidst all the hooplah that preceeded the Saturday classic, was the correct one to have...