Word: hype
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That fear probably is exaggerated. Jackson sloughs it off as "negative hype and speculation" by the media. Says he: "I am not going to tear up the Democratic Party." He vows to be a "healer," not a "spoiler." Last week he called on D.N.C. Chairman Charles Manatt, and to Manatt's huge relief promised that he would not bolt the party at the convention. He never intended to, he says. The idea of a walkout was "Manatt's magnificent obsession." It is in Jackson's interest to compromise, and he knows it. If he wants...
...capable of visualizing all of that, then you'll probably have little trouble understanding all the promotional hype behind Debra Winger's latest film. Mike's Murder. And, if you happened to see Terms of Endearment, you can probably surmise what talent--if any--she brings to the production. What you might have trouble understanding after seeing the film though is, career and financial opportunism aside, why anyone would support this movie...
...Computer, now operating in bankruptcy after a couple of go-go years, charges that "marketing hype" has caused some prices to quintuple. Osborne has formed a new company called Paperback Software International, which hopes to sell programs for about $50. He expects to keep prices down by operating the company somewhat like an agricultural cooperative, with software writers being given stock in the firm, and by mass marketing...
Keeton said the show will be performed in a 300-seat theater. "With the right press and hype," it will play to full houses, he added...
...campy references to the '50s and contemporary glitz has not impressed everyone. While he admires the bravado, U.S. Designer George Nelson notes that Memphis seems unconcerned with such staples as utility and affordability. Says he: "There's a bottomless appetite for novelty in the age of hype. The interesting thing is why they chose to call it furniture." And the Museum of Modern Art's director of architecture and design, Arthur Drexler, refuses to mount a Memphis show at MOMA. Says he: "Announcing that it's all deeply philosophical gives the media a peg to hang...