Word: hype
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...sure enough, now it is one, opening last week off-Broadway with a contradictory set of expectations. On the one hand, it's a rare case of a musical with lots of hype potential that has emerged fully formed--book, lyrics and music by newcomer Paul Scott Goodman--with almost no advance publicity. On the other hand, the musical is burdened, rather unfairly, by comparisons with a very different show, Rent, simply because it originates in the same downtown theater (and with the same director) as that trend-setting hit. Can theatrical lightning strike twice...
...these areas, and the supreme entertainment value that each of them brought to the concert couldn't mask these weaknesses. The audience loved Morissette and Garbage for the pomp and rarity of embracing a mutual moment with cultural icons, but the relationship never cut deeper than the shared hype...
...reason is the same one that men should not be allowed to join the Rockettes: the show will not be the show if the other sex joins it. Personally, in all my college career I've never quite understood what all the HPT hype is about. If women joined and the form were to change, it wouldn't bother me much. But 151 years of caca-doody humor say I'm in the minority. And this year, if you're in the mood for the Pudding Show, you won't be well hung--I mean, hung...
...provincial Academy members just get so many things wrong. They consistently prove the victims of hype, campaign pressure, and seeming bouts of ignorance, laziness and forgetfulness. Let us examine the transgressions...
Chris Taylor mentioned in his article "The History and the Hype" that "no one in the computer industry wanted to rock the boat..." by confronting the Y2K problem. Well, Apple Computer did, and thanks to the makers of Macintosh, Mac users do not have to worry about the Y2K bug in the operating system. Just imagine manpower expenses for those who did not rock the boat--whole nations could be given a free computer for every citizen. WOLFGANG SCHUBERT Tien Mou, Taiwan