Word: hype
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...Republican Party establishment threw itself at his feet. Thirty-six G.O.P. Senators, 100 Congressmen and 2,000 well-tailored donors, many of them lobbyists, all paid homage to the Texas Governor--a capital reception so warm and so lucrative that even the composed candidate seemed caught up in the hype. To the fawning Congressmen he gushed, "I look forward to working with you," as though he had already been elected President. And he has reason to be cocky. By the end of this week, he will have raised more than $20 million--as much as all his G.O.P. rivals combined...
...remark betrays a certain tone-deafness. The Holocaust's memory, in this country far from the death camps, may be inflated and abused. But it seems perverse to argue on that basis that it is unworthy of American tears. This book should be read as a corrective to dutiful hype and dubious comparisons, not as an injunction against feeling...
...Like the hype swirling around the opening of "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace," we've been hearing about the approaching millennium for years. As a society, we've created the ultimate movie opening for a chronological turning point, complete with the merchandise--a consumer event for a consumer society...
...edition of The Crimson, with its brief look at the happenings of the previous century, is of course not the kind of in-depth review needed for an entire millennium. But its approach of examining the past in appreciation and then moving on to the future without hype, without fear of apocalypse or blind expectation of a momentous event, is worth emulating...
...hype swirling around Rockin' Eve 2000 -- concerts, dream vacations from Barbados to Giza--has put much of America in a tizzy to find something big to commemorate the split second that heralds the new year...