Word: hype
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Still, while our campus may not be host to celebrations of gender-play and queer sexuality, Mangu-Ward said that for her, Wellesley did not live up to its hype. “I didn’t feel that Wellesley was this blossoming haven of lesbianism that Harvard isn’t,” she said...
Part of the hype was probably the product of style; from the sideways caps to the arm sweatbands to the baggy pants, they had the look to get the girlies in the front rows putting their hands in the air. Their movement over the stage was energetic and balanced, and they even broke out with some choreographed little moves here and there, to the crowd’s delight...
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...first, it was kind of hard because you’re used to all that hype,” Moore said. “But it’s so much of a different kind of excitement. I would much rather be in our arena when it’s a packed house on an Ivy League night...
...John Gearhart of Johns Hopkins University, a pioneer in stem cell research, retraced the turbulent history of that promising field, which he lamented had lately acquired an ?Alice in Wonderland quality? where things aren?t always what they seem. He blamed this partly on media hype, partly on ?lousy science? and partly on political pressures - notably the Bush administration?s decision to sharply limit the availability of human embryonic stem cells. Still, he cited a number of promising recent experiments in which stem cells were used to repair damaged tissue in animals; for example, he showed a video...