Word: hype
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stewart attributes much of the hype over AIDS to homophobia. "Anti-gay feelings which previously could not be articulated are now being expressed in the name of health. Some people use AIDS to claim pseudo-scientific justification for their bigotry," Jake Stevens says...
...June, while the regime undertakes an intense effort to cripple the rebels once and for all. According to the CIA, the Sandinistas are staging a sophisticated "disinformaton" campaign designed to convince liberal legislators that the contras are a bloodthirsty band of freebooters. Skeptics assume that despite the Administration's hype, Nicaragua's efforts are no different from the lobbying routinely done by other foreign nations...
Some movie hype for the movie blues: it is the best of times and the worst of times. It is a time of turbulence and stagnation, of threat and promise from a competitor: the magic, omnivorous videocassette recorder (VCR). In other words, it is business as usual for the picture people. And if you think make-believe rules only in front of the camera, think again. Says Barry Diller, chairman of 20th Century-Fox: "This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful...
...public revelation Monday of drug use by several Patriots players has cast a macabre gloom over every player, coach, manager, and fan of the Patriots. A cocaine sackcloth has been drawn over what was, only 10 short days ago, the most hyped team in the hype-filled history of Boston sports...
...hype, you know it. But in between Yosemite Sam-style half-swallowed profanities, you can't help wondering whether he got it cut below the ear or in a more fashinable high-and-tight. Static swallows the remainder of the newscast; you reach the city limits, and the radio swells back on: "...late-breaking news, folks...(some annoying feedback here)...it was...fizzle, fizzle...a high and...(more bothersome static)...tight...