Word: hype
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During the brief, odd season of the 1982 strike, when the defending world champion 49ers won just three of nine games, they crossed over the border. Injuries were rampant, but some damage reports came in late from the Super Bowl, not all physical. "It's such a hype, such a dramatic and traumatic experience," Walsh says, "you can be consumed by it. When the glory first starts to erode and then quickly passes completely, some players seek that state of mind elsewhere and can't find it. We've had our victims." Then last year San Francisco returned to form...
...COTTON CLUB is epic emptiness. Considering it had a mindboggling budget, a deluge of pre-release hype complete with melodramatic creation story, and a hip-hopping nightclub as its center, one might at least expect to be entertained...
...recently commissioned State of Massachusetts Task Force on Organ Transplants makes it clear that these operations, and "Baby Fae" and her transplanted baboon's heart are much more than isolated novelties created by media hype. In fact, they bring into public focus a controversy over the medical ethics and social implications of organ transplants. The task force has completed its study, addressing the problem of how to allocate organ transplants in the face of too few donor organs and too little money. Aside from this immediate concern, one of its major goals is, according to Marc S. Roberts, professor...
...true assessment of the process to the public, says Raphael H. Levey, chief of transplants surgery at BWH. "I'm not glad the operation was tried at this time. Cyclosporin is not the miracle drug it's cracked up to be and it's not good to create hype and give false hope to the public, while seeking undue publicity for an unjustified operation...
ALTHOUGH IT HAS been denounced by almost every religious group in Boston and by several politicians including Mayor Flynn Christopher Durang's black comedy Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You is hardly worth the hype. In fact, the picketers outside the Charles Playhouse who charge the play with being a "vile diatribe against all things Catholic" may be their own worst enemy. Without their help this poorly directed version of Durang's limited comedy would probably just wither away into theatrical oblivion...