Word: hype
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...only concern I have is the hype," said Harvard Coach Tim Wheaton, who enters his 12th season at the helm. "You can't believe your press. It can hurt you two ways: You can be complacent because you read it--but I don't think that will happen with this team--or you can be too hard on yourself. We've got to go out and play every...
...attend any of the public forums being held throughout the district, you will probably hear someone say they "want to be your voice in Congress." I look at it a bit differently. Too many politicians begin to believe their own hype, begin to believe they can "own" an issue which a community has been dealing with for years. It is one thing to be a strong advocate but quite another to try to become the issue itself...
Glenn's mission: the right stuff or the right hype? RICHARD T. SEEGER Fort Wayne...
...branch out into womenswear, which he started just last year but which already, he says, does four or five times the business of his men's line. This is partly because as a bona fide all-American, good-looking, young and talented man in the fashion industry, Bartlett attracts hype the way linen attracts wrinkles. And hype sells clothes. But it's also partly because the man has an eye. He hasn't attracted big bucks yet. Revenues this year will be somewhere around the $4 million mark, or 2.5% of Ralph Lauren's 1997 advertising budget...
Bowie grabbed $55 million that way in the first bond deal of its kind. Since those "Bowie bonds," there has been much hype about entertainers eager to cash in their estate before it actually exists, but few deals have been cut. That's about to change. David Pullman, the banker behind the Bowie deal, closed three more celebrity-bond deals in July. Altogether he raised $30 million for the Motown writing trio of Edward and Brian Holland and Lamont Dozier, whose hits include Stop! in the Name of Love and Baby I Need Your Loving. To date, Pullman's deals...