Word: hype
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rogers said that the best students who get into Brown, which has a very unstructured curriculum, and other prestigious schools end up going somewhere else. He called the reports of Brown's popularity in past several years "hollow hype...
...bicentennial. Our bicentennial was in 1954," said sophomore Andrew Cadel. "I think the whole thing's a big hype for our alumni, and it's not for me at all," he told The Columbia Spectator...
...claims Bracy was offered immunity in the Navy's attempt to build its case against Lonetree but that Bracy had refused to accept it. Navy investigators concede that their cases have been built largely with lie detectors and must be strengthened. Kunstler goes further: "The case is a consummate hype and fraud," he charged. "They're trying to make Clayton and, I suspect, Bracy too scapegoats for their lax supervision." He said he wants the case taken away from the military and handled in federal courts, where, unlike a court-martial, there is no death penalty for peacetime espionage. "They...
...everyone knows, one painting in his life, and it was not Sunflowers. If only he had had what we have today -- a million millionaires clamoring for art, corporate art advisers breeding like Gucci-shod mice in every cranny from Tokyo to Stuttgart, the whole grotesque edifice of sanctimony, hype, greed and social mummery that has been raised above bones like his. How much closer he might have come, poor strange man, to an understanding of his own value...
Stunned by last week' s record price for Van Gogh' s Sunflowers, the art world looks for reasons. But the sale -- no less than the $50 million auction of the Duchess of Windsor' s jewels -- is only a symptom of hype and greed. The public sense of art is demeaned as a wealthy entrepreneurial class fixates on "masterpieces" and private collectors drive museums out of the market...