Word: hype
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...obscures the mediocrity of his music. Photographs of his skinny indie-bod and endearing bedhead hair frequently appear in the music press, which predictably enough, has gone apeshit over his weepy singer-songwriter crooning (as if atoning for the loss of Elliott Smith). Thanks to their relentless firehose of hype, Oberst has become the pouty poster boy for an uninspired mass of faux-alternative artists whose gentle yet tearful lyrical confessions sell millions of records to disaffected youth squealing, “I want my MTV2!” And their duct-taped wallets are just twitching for Bright Eyes?...
...Social Security was, of course, the big sale of the night and it was about as unexpected as the car dealer who asks if you're ready to talk about financing. Still, for all the hype, it's hard to see how Bush made much progress-with Democrats who seem more united than at any time since 2001, with his own nervous Nellies and with the audience at home. First, it's a tough sell, because while voters intuitively believe the program is in trouble-despite the lame protestations of Democrats that its fiscal outlook is utterly sunny-they...
...longtime owner of Hewlett-Packard, whose stock has flatlined since the company acquired Compaq in 2002. AOL's merger with Time Warner (parent company of TIME) may have set a new standard of paired futility, erasing some 80% of the merged company's stock value. After the hype subsides, more often than not, investors wind up with tax write-offs...
...anti-Bush docs, ?Uncovered? is the least cinematic (mostly talking heads), the least hype-happy and thus the most plausible. News clips present the Administration?s arguments for the War, and two dozen diplomats, analysts and investigators pick them to pieces. They are presented as career men and women devoted to government service and outraged that Bush?s people could twist the facts to fit a pre-conceived scheme. My only problem with it: these very reasonable, judicious folks from the State Department and the CIA are the same breed - sometimes the same people - who helped bungle U.S. policy...
...Both ?The Passion? and ?Fahrenheit? benefitted from the curiosity factor, once media hype and early box office numbers attracted audiences beyond the movies? cores. But the core was important. Conservative Christians were enormously important in making ?The Passion? the hit it was. They got the faithful to the theaters. And in November, the same churches and social groups got the faithful to the polls...