Word: hype
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...officials at the briefing (who declined to be named but who included an intelligence analyst and an explosives expert) were at pains to distance themselves from what one called the "tremendous hype" in Washington - an apparent reference to recent U.S. claims of Iranian involvement in Iraq, which some fear might be a prelude to aggressive action against Tehran. The briefing occurred in the context of increased American pressure on the Iranian government. And the Bush Administration has claimed that the strife in Iraq since the summer of 2003 can be laid largely at the feet of foreign actors - from Arab...
...Harvard asserted its position as first in the Ivies with hard-earned 87-74 triumph over Penn.Harvard will be back at home next Friday and Saturday to face Brown and Yale.That effort held the Tigers to a disappointing 36.7 shooting percentage for the game.HARVARD 87, PENN 74Although the hype surrounding the night was not as great as the previous game, the match-up against the Quakers (8-12, 3-4) was just as important. After claiming first place on Friday, the Crimson women looked to assert their dominance over the Ivy League.“I’m happy...
...drugs hype and advances in neuroscience caused psychotherapy to be neglected in medical education, says Louise Newman, director of the New South Wales Institute of Psychiatry. Lately, she says, "we've reintroduced psychotherapy principles in the first year of training"; the aim is "returning to a more holistic approach" to treating mental distress. For the afflicted who want neither to take drugs nor be grilled about intimacies by a doctor, that can only be good news...
...would have been obviously seen as a “Clear and Present Danger”-style, middle-of-the-road action movie. But now that we live in a world where EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED, this trailer claims to be exciting and timely. Don’t believe the hype. Plus, Jamie Foxx ? Harrison Ford. 300 Celluloid Gold Oh. Ehm. Gee. Imagine the hairiest, burliest, most butch man’s man in the world. Then imagine that guy having rough, wild sex with a male professional wrestler. Meanwhile, they’re both screaming and veins are bulging...
...Weekly” magazine. I mean, who doesn’t love to skim its pages for gritty gossip and fashionable celeb photos? But when it comes to a biography of the literary heroes of Transcendentalism, I just can’t get behind this style of all hype and no substance. In a delivery disastrously aimed at the hip-intellectual readership, Susan Cheever’s “American Bloomsbury” reduces Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau to a group of 19th Century Bennifers and Brangelinas. Cheever aims...