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...salesmanship had a lot to do with his popular success, but claims not to take it seriously. "It has nothing to do with artistic merit or substance," he says. Adds brother Delfeayo, who has produced more than a dozen albums for Columbia and other labels: "Sure, Wynton has the hype. He created the hype: he was cute and articulate, and he could play his ass off. But people shouldn't confuse the hype with the music...
...addition, the draft played a key role in turning college students against the Vietnam War. Despite all the hype over leftist ideologies, most historians agree that only the end of college draft exemptions drove anti-war sentiment from the political fringes to the campus mainstream...
...critics before it was telecast. Even so, few expected that an audience of great size would sit still for the 12-hour, five-night history lesson -- a lesson, moreover, with almost no film footage to enliven it, no Hollywood gimmicks to romanticize it and no network publicity machine to hype...
TWIN PEAKS (ABC, Sept. 30, 9 p.m. EDT). It's back to the weird Northwest to find out whether Agent Cooper survived the gunshots and whether David Lynch's cult series survived the hype...
...hear so much hype about it from the Confi Guide, the CUE guide and upperclass publicity that I went into it thinking it would be a gut," said Matt D. Tousignant '93. "It's not a gut at all. I'm not even looking at the CUE guide anymore...