Word: hype
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...personality pieces retain a healthy edge of skepticism. Moreover, some staffers believe the old TV Guide, with its rather stodgy format, may have been due for rejuvenation. Yet that sober, even-tempered tone of voice always provided an important bit of ballast for a business fraught with glitter and hype. The danger is that when the current make-over is finished, one of the TV industry's watchdogs will wind up as just another part of the show...
...prospect of cheap and limitless energy has reporters all over the world scouring the world's universities and laboratories--prompting The New Republic to coin the term, "Hype-energy physics...
Many scientists express grave concern over the hype they say the press has inserted into the fusion discoveries. Many note the wild tales of levitating trains that circulated in the popular press when high-temperature superconductors were discovered two years...
...auction of Soviet contemporary art held, amid vast hype, by Sotheby's in Moscow last July was seen by the West as a vindication of dissident artists but by many of the artists themselves as divisive and even dispiriting. Some lots went for unheard-of sums; the painter Grisha Bruskin, whose work had been comfortably selling in America for just over $40,000, saw a large multipanel piece called Fundamental Lexicon go for $415,000, an event that caused much skeptical talk both inside and outside the ministry. Landscapes by Svetlana Kopystiansky, and her husband Igor's assemblages...
...Allison saw it, she and the mountain settled some unfinished business. That was that. But hype has a life of its own, and she was rewarded on her return with her country's equivalent of a knighthood, an interview on David Letterman's late-night TV show. She is little, blond and cute, and probably could have carried Letterman on her back to the top of the Statue of Liberty. His questions were gingerly and puzzled. She, as it happened, had never seen Letterman's show, but friends had explained its tribal rituals. No 19th century explorer snacking on pickled...