Word: hype
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reading Locke is probably just as bourgeois as going to The Game, but I think there's a difference. Around here anway, The Game is The Hype, and by going I show that I believe the hype, the same way that some newly westernized Berliners believe the hype about the hundred sausages...
...director Amy Cabranes accepts Durang's heavy-handed script much too readily, and rather than toning down the rhetoric, Cabranes has the actors hype the play's already overblown elements. Hernandez's bubble-blowing, Snoopy-wielding analyst comes off well the first time, but a constant repetition of the same sight gags and crazy word substitutions (Hernandez says "porpoise" when she means "patient" at least six times) rapidly becomes unconvincing. Some subtlety would have been nice; we don't need to see Hernandez in a pink nightgown with a teddy to know that her behavior is childish...
...moment that holds triumphs and complex dilemmas. During the 1980s, magazines began using more pictures and giving them bigger space. It may be that too many were celebrity portraits and glamour shots, but the galvanizing news image and the serious photo-essay were never squashed by the sparkle and hype that squeezed them. Magazines in the U.S. and abroad sheltered indispensable projects like Sebastiao Salgado's global survey of work, Alon Reininger's portrait of the age of AIDS and the essays on homelessness by Mary Ellen Mark and Eugene Richards. A few imaginative newspapers began generating stories that...
Although the book's jacket-hype calls it "a major work of documentary history and the...personal record of a beloved president," most of Speaking My Mind is less a valuable look inside Reagan's mind than a tribute to the rhetorical skills of his speechwriters...
...forget all the hype...