Word: hype
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...wrinkle in the lucrative skin game. Introduced only last month, Glycel has already topped $5 million in sales. The famed surgeon's involvement has also proved controversial. Declares Dermatologist Albert Kligman of the University of Pennsylvania, who has consulted for a rival manufacturer: "It's one huge piece of hype, and the motive is an ancient one: money...
...whole venture has been rationalized in the pre-release hype with the argument that it is a "true" story. The movie is based on a book by an anonymous author who describes how she was pulled into a nine-and-a-half-week long relationship with a man who dominated her body and mind. She finally realizes the perverseness and horror of the relationship and escapes to write a published account of the whole ordeal...
Stewart attributes much of the hype over AIDS to homophobia. "Anti-gay feelings which previously could not be articulated are now being expressed in the name of health. Some people use AIDS to claim pseudo-scientific justification for their bigotry," Jake Stevens says...
...June, while the regime undertakes an intense effort to cripple the rebels once and for all. According to the CIA, the Sandinistas are staging a sophisticated "disinformaton" campaign designed to convince liberal legislators that the contras are a bloodthirsty band of freebooters. Skeptics assume that despite the Administration's hype, Nicaragua's efforts are no different from the lobbying routinely done by other foreign nations...
Some movie hype for the movie blues: it is the best of times and the worst of times. It is a time of turbulence and stagnation, of threat and promise from a competitor: the magic, omnivorous videocassette recorder (VCR). In other words, it is business as usual for the picture people. And if you think make-believe rules only in front of the camera, think again. Says Barry Diller, chairman of 20th Century-Fox: "This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful...