Word: hype
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...therefore, with all the exaggerated claims and the media hype, we can still look upon the new technology with cautious enthusiasm. At the very least, universities should manage to use technology to engage students in a more active process of thinking and problem solving that will help them learn more effectively. At best, the new machines may also be a catalyst to hasten the development of new insights into human cognition and new ways of helping students learn...
...snip there, negotiators from Capitol Hill worked out with the White House a compromise budget plan that would eventually cut projected deficits by more than half. President Reagan agreed to scale back on two sacred programs: defense and Social Security. Yet there was one catch amid the hype about what Donald Regan, the White House chief of staff, hailed as "the most ambitious budget-reduction plan in postwar history." The celebrated agreement was not with the Democratic House, which will have to approve it. It was with leaders of Reagan's own party in the Senate...
...moment, has the bastard sport of pro wrestling. From glittery Manhattan (where some aficionados were offering $200 for a good seat) to good-ole-boy Kissimmee, in closed-circuit auditoriums in the U.S. and 26 foreign countries, wrestling fans of all collars are savoring the triumph of hype, hell raising and Hulk Hogan. They made America; let's buy all three...
During the brief, odd season of the 1982 strike, when the defending world champion 49ers won just three of nine games, they crossed over the border. Injuries were rampant, but some damage reports came in late from the Super Bowl, not all physical. "It's such a hype, such a dramatic and traumatic experience," Walsh says, "you can be consumed by it. When the glory first starts to erode and then quickly passes completely, some players seek that state of mind elsewhere and can't find it. We've had our victims." Then last year San Francisco returned to form...
...COTTON CLUB is epic emptiness. Considering it had a mindboggling budget, a deluge of pre-release hype complete with melodramatic creation story, and a hip-hopping nightclub as its center, one might at least expect to be entertained...