Word: hype
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...latest darling of the press, which is eager to impose some order on the race. Many of the influential political writers who have urged the Democrats to nominate a more conservative candidate see Clinton as the fulfillment of their own prescription for victory. "But it's not just hype," says Joe McDermott, who leads New York State's civil service workers. "Clinton has actually held a job where he's seen things tried and fail in the real world. He can go to the country with something more than words, which can make Bush's attack harder to sustain...
...request of my die-hard, save-the-Square-from-yuppification editors, I recently went undercover at both these stores to try and separate the holistic from the hype...
Both stores were nevertheless packed with customers who were apparently indifferent to the insubstantial hype. Maybe what we all want nowadays is a sanitized, decorative, larger-than-life reality substitute rather than the real thing...
Unfortunately, America is not in charge of this battle. Norman Schwartzkopf cannot run the Games like a fine-tuned military machine and save us from the media hype. No, this battle is firmly in the hands of the corporate minds at M&M, Hallmark Cards, Tropicana Orange Juice and P.B. Max candy bars. That's not P.B. for Polluted Broadcasting...
...EVGENY KISSIN: CARNEGIE HALL DEBUT CONCERT (RCA, 2 CDs). For once, a Russian pianist who deserved all his pre-debut hype. In September 1990, before the toughest audience in the world, Kissin, then 18, wowed 'em with Schumann, Prokofiev, Liszt and Chopin...