Word: hype
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...history, the records, the jungle of numbers that leads to nothing but overinflated and suffocating hype won't help answer the question on everyone's mind...
Some students who shopped the class yesterday said they had heard a lot of hype and wanted to hear Lee explain the course...
...sold the nation a miracle product, All-New Hope: it gives you cleaner, cheaper government with a fresh minty flavor. But if it doesn't get the stains out, the electorate's high hopes could sour into despair. Then the man called ( Hope will become the man called Hype -- nothing more than a baby-boomer Babbitt. All the big stars and better angels will leave him out in the spotlight, stranded, unmasked...
This is hard on journalists, who are trained to spot trendlets in their infancy and hype them into vast cultural sea changes. Not too long ago, for instance, this magazine announced a "new-simplicity" trend involving antimaterialism and wood-burning stoves -- and then the new simplicity turned out to be only the old recession. Or there was CBS News's pitiful attempt a few weeks ago to claim alternative healing as a newsworthy trend. Healing with crystals and chamomile may have been trendy and exciting in '74. Today, among the 37 million uninsured, chamomile has long since replaced penicillin...
...beaten, and beaten badly." Another fit of depression, or was he in real political trouble? He wound up, of course, winning decisively. Why? No clues here. The documentary spends far more time on melodrama, especially the events leading up to Lincoln's assassination. It's an effort to hype a story that, as The Civil War should have proved, doesn't need...