Word: hype
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...feud between Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers and Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 has become old news; indeed, it seems that at least some of the friction was hype created by the media’s ever-present desire to have a feeding frenzy at Harvard’s expense. Still, the issues this controversy raises are anything but ephemeral, cutting to the heart of some of the most fundamental principles upon which Harvard—or for that matter any University—is based...
...events captured the willful hubris of the late '90s like the summer 1999 launch of Talk magazine. The hype-driven, bicoastal venture of Hearst Magazines and Miramax Films began life with a celebrity editor, Tina Brown; with the requisite '90s whiff of "synergy" (articles becoming books becoming movies becoming magazine covers!); and with a party, complete with fireworks and paparazzi, at the feet of the Statue of Liberty. It ended life last week with a whimper, as Brown tearfully broke the news of its closing to her staff, followed by a subdued dinner...
...half-century ago, in the shadow of Stalin and Auschwitz, the critic Lionel Trilling spoke of "the fatuity that does not know the evil of the world." The other night in Boston, a group of American college students declared that 9/11 and all that has followed are "media hype." Such sinister obtuseness is not typical of their age group, even on college campuses. Still, anytime before Sept. 11, most 19- or 20-year-old students, if asked to name the most dramatic-traumatic public event of their lives, invariably remembered the explosion of the Challenger. Evil, in the prosperous...
...Question: Have you seen 'Lord of the Rings'? And do you think it lives up to all the hype? Will it be another 'Star Wars' phenomenon...
...Around this time a new wave of video wizards appeared on the scene: there was Hype Williams, who directed videos by Missy Elliott ("The Rain - Supa Dupa Fly") and Mary J. Blige ("Everything"). There was the elegantly creepy work of Floria Sigismondi who directed videos for shock-rocker Marilyn Manson (one featured him shaving his own armpit) and trip-hopper Tricky. And there was also prankster auteur Spike Jonze, the man behind Bjork's "It's Oh So Quiet" (a video that explodes into a technicolor musical), the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" (a take-off on '70s TV cop shows...