Word: hype
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Mahatma and now author of the door-stopping, 745-page Mohandas: A True Story of a Man, his People and an Empire. The book's title and its author's pedigree promise much. A scion of the great man, one hopes, will wrest Gandhi's narrative away from cinematic hype and the Hindu extremists who claim to be his true inheritors (even though it was Hindu hard-liner Nathuram Godse who assassinated...
...politically energizing so many who had been apathetic, but he cannot rest on his laurels. Good ideas and sound policies should be the next step for the senator’s campaign because, with them alongside his rhetoric, his performance in the Oval Office will live up to the hype...
...poster called “Madcat” asks on the recently controversial admissions blog xoxohth.com. The bloggers certainly seem to be trying. This burn-book-style blog has received plenty of attention, with articles in The Washington Post and a segment on NPR. With all the hype, you’d think the blog was a cornucopia of juicy gossip about the future Sam McSenators who populate Harvard Law School. Reality disappoints. Scrolling through posts, the most viewed posts includes a YouTube video of an unidentified Harvard Law student with a 40 oz. duct-taped to her wrists that...
...turns out, “Bright Lights, Big City,” with book, music, and lyrics by Paul Scott Goodman, is a show that doesn’t buy its own hype. In fact, it’s a surprisingly big-hearted work, a story of redemption in the face of vapid, pretentious hedonism. And while this production, directed by Mary E. Birnbaum ’07 and produced by Barry A. Shafrin ‘09, may not always understand the scene it tries to portray, it more than gets by on its sincere belief in the value...
...eight-week span. Walker, with her co-producers Derek M. Flanzraich ’10 and Kristina A. Dominguez ’10, hopes to produce a weekly seven-minute program that is shot on Wednesday evenings and premieres the following Friday.LOOKING FOR RECOGNITIONEven with the all the hype surrounding the development of new shows, HRTV hopes its mainstay won’t falter.“It’s really exciting that we’ve been able to create an institutional framework to ensure that ‘Ivory Tower’ continues...