Word: hype
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Reagan's strategists felt that the accusations of warmongering required a strong personal response, unlike Carter's charges of racism against the Republican, which the Governor's aides correctly assumed would backfire. Said Senior Adviser James Baker:, "They'll keep trying to hype this war issue unless someone calls them on it for factual accuracy and demagoguery." Reagan's aides also hope that the shrillness of Carter's statements will detract from one of his strongest attributes-his image of decency and fairness...
...talking in front of the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk exactly as he might outside a struck factory in Akron. Overnight, Strike Leader Lech Walesa-whose appearances on the state-run Polish television were kept to a minimum-became a familiar American-television face. With the usual American gift for hype, Republicans trotted out Walesa's father, who lives in New Jersey but doesn't speak English, to pose for TV cameras with Ronald Reagan against the backdrop of the Statue of Liberty...
...Edward Hopper retrospective that opened last week at New York's Whitney Museum of American Art may well be the only incontestably great museum exhibition of work by an American artist in the past decade. The word great is crippled by hype these days, and perhaps it merely clouds what it seeks to praise; yet the qualities it suggests-patient, lucid development; the transcendence of mere talent; richness and density of meaning; and a deep sense of moral dignity in the artist's refraction of his own culture-are so evident in Hopper that no other word will...
...tell me what my values were." A fight promoter, angry at newspaper attacks, decides that "a certain elite has decided that wrestling does not belong as a respectable sport in this country . . . I think it's a black day . . . There is no American Dream. It's a hype, an elusive nothing." A hyperactive executive regards zero growth as the sin of sloth: "If we don't grow and get more profit, there isn't more money for raises . . . 'Enough money' is always a little bit more than you have. There's never enough...
...year in the yard seemed to back up the hype. Despite injuries (always a threat to this 5-ft. 8-in., 155 pounder), he electrified crowds and didn't lose a single game. Then came "eligibility problems" as a sophomore and a direct return to "Go" --do not collect varsity experience. Sound familiar...