Word: hype
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Heisman Hype: Gordie Lockbaum, Holy Cross' Heisman Trophy candidate, threw for a touchdown and ran for one Saturday...
...standout cut) could easily be looking at himself, a few years later, in One Step Up and noticing "I don't see/ The man I wanted to be." There is, in fact, much lyrical speculation on manhood in this record, as if Springsteen, disgusted with the rock-Rambo hype that surrounded him during the Born in the U.S.A. concert tour, decided to right the balance. These men are racked and struggling, and if one of them sings he's "tougher than the rest," from a song of the same name, he sounds like he's faking it. No rebels here...
Even in the computer industry, which is known for its hype and hullabaloo, the trade show that Digital Equipment Corp. opened in Boston last week is a happening. It is the largest and most lavish extravaganza ever held by a single computer manufacturer, and not even all the hotels in the Hub could accommodate the 50,000 executives, financial analysts and journalists from 25 countries who are expected to attend the $25 million, eleven-day affair. To house the overflow crowd, the Queen Elizabeth 2 and the Star/Ship Oceanic luxury liners were docked alongside the spacious World Trade Center...
...here, a tuck there, and the face you have at 40 is no longer the face you deserve but the face you can afford. In the past five years, thanks to new surgical wizardry, media hype and the laws of gravity exerting their inevitable effect on baby boomers, cosmetic surgery has soared in popularity. Last year some half a million Americans were snipped, suctioned, stretched and trussed, compared with 300,000 in 1981. Once the province of aging screen stars and wealthy matrons, cosmetic surgery now attracts middle-class office workers, many in their 30s and 40s, and many...
There is bravery and originality in the bluntness of these movies. And in + their avoidance of melodramatic hype and improbably heartening resolutions, there are lessons American movies might learn. Still, one retreats with relief to the accustomed elegances of a well-made film like The Whistle Blower. To be sure, the paranoia that long ago settled damply around our spy dramas seems to have drifted eastward to infect Writer Julian Bond and Director Simon Langton. Their story has the British espionage establishment protecting a highly placed mole by murdering innocent, clerkish underlings in an attempt to convince its American allies...