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...wrong to criticize Luciano Pavarotti [Nov. 30] for his commercialism and hype. He has taken opera out of the tiny domain of the musical elite and given it to the world. Thanks to Pavarotti, some south Georgia teen-agers now concede that opera is "not too bad." What more noble achievement is there...
...hype now swirling around the I.R.A.s is almost a replay of the fanfare that marked the introduction of the tax-free All Savers Certificates last October. That gimmick proved to be much less popular than anticipated, but financial analysts do not expect the same fate to befall the new I.R.A.s. To begin with, the All Savers Certificates are available only in the form of deposits at banks, S and Ls and credit unions. Moreover, the All Savers program was designed as a temporary measure to aid the ailing financial industry and is due to expire...
...chatter among the Longhorn partisans about taking on a bunch of Ivy League intellects? "Naw, I don't hype any game anyway, not whether it's Texas A&M, Arkansas, Houston or Harvard." And what's more, he was quick to point out, Texas may have 48,000 students, "but you still need a 1200 on your boards to get in, whatever that may mean to folks up here...
...longer the talks last without any visible progress, the more the U.S. initiative will fade. The European anti-nuclear movement will begin to stir again, accusing Washington of stalling and being insincere about arms reductions. Critics here will charge that the "zero-option" was no more than public relations hype, and American foreign policy will once again have been frustrated...
...kind of supercilious rancor and a free-floating hostility toward the intelligentsia. The late bird has got half the worm. The Right Stuff, his best book, sandwiched between his two weakest, The Painted Word and this one, showed how accurate an eye Wolfe has for manners, fantasies, customs and hype, and how he can rise to a kind of ravenous comic brilliance when engaged with a subject he respects. There is no feeling of engagement in From Bauhaus to Our House, no sense that he particularly cares about architecture at all, unless it can be shown up as the carapace...