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...first issue of Inside Edge hit newsstands across the country this week amid media hype. With backing from Time-Warner Inc., expectations are high for this magazine started by two Harvard juniors. However, the magazine geared at young men has not received glowing campus reviews. Some students say the magazine is sexist, and many interviewed this week say the Harvard Lampoon's parody was better than the real thing...
Since his talent was the motor that drove the Venetian High Renaissance, the show's title, "The Century of Titian," is not empty hype. Few artists have ever dominated a period, and a cultural frame, the way Titian did. His public career as an artist began with the new century, around 1505; it lasted until 1576, when he was carried off by the plague, still painting, at the age of about...
...Denver setup reveals the weakness behind a lot of the information- superhighway hype: for all their posturing, neither the phone companies nor the cable-TV operators are quite ready to build a fully interactive and automated data highway that stretches from coast to coast. But thanks to a number of technical innovations, they are getting awfully close...
...pros developed superstars Bird, Johnson, Julius Erving and Michael Jordan, with their mind-boggling athleticism and their equally stunning earnings ($35 million for Jordan this year). A renewed spirit and loyalty swept college basketball as television began to hype March. And down below, in the great dribbling masses, the kids with basketballs tucked in bed with them watched and watched and practiced and practiced and waited. Thus a culture was created...
...Clinton's plan has been dangerously obscured by the overwhelming hype that surroundis it. In his address to Congress, the President linked support of his plan to patriotism. As soon as he finished his speech, Clinton's cabinet fanned out around the country lobbying business, labor and other groups that would be affected by the proposal...