Word: hype
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There's a certain amount of desperation in Welfare and there's a certain amount of hype, but it's hard to tell what's what, who's a hardship case and who's cheating the system. The camera is locked into the same claustrophobic office, there aren't even shots looking through windows. When somebody is sent down to the Social Security office at 39th Street, or to J Street for bed and a meal, they're gone, that's it. And this seems to be Wiseman's way of saying that he can never...
Soft Rockers. "Is it a hype? Is it a hope? Or is it a Bicentennial gift from the old country?" goes Cosell's introduction for the Rollers. Cosell's musical taste being on a par with his knack for objective sports reporting, it is likely that even he does not have the answers to those questions. What is known for sure about the Rollers is that they drive little girls wild. In the year and a half since they supplanted the Osmonds as the favorites of youthful Britain, weeping, squealing and screaming have been big things at their...
...after 23 years, MGM has decided to rerelease the movie nation-wide--with plenty of hype, including umbrella-festooned theater lobbies--and give those people a chance to see the other 97 minutes. MGM would have done better to confine itself to three minutes of Gene Kelly in the puddles. Unveiled in all its technicolor gaudiness, Singin' in the Rain stands revealed as an overblown, badly acted, often tedious extravaganza that almost drowns Kelly's perfect little droplet...
That year Yastrzemski also became the highest paid player in baseball. Catfish Hunter could claim that honor now, but Yaz's salary certainly hasn't shrunk, and since 1967 the money, the batting order, the hype, his longevity as the Sox's oldest veteran, the team leadership he has always displayed (sometimes challenged by the younger players on a club that has had its share of dissension), and the memories--these combine to put an incredible amount of pressure on him, the man who replaced Ted Williams. And since '67 he has flirted with the hopes of the people dangerously...
Tomorrow, in case you hadn't noticed, is July 4, 1975. And if you think that's something, just wait until next year. It may be coming out of your cars already, but the Bicentennial hype has barely gotten underway. By next year, there will probably be Bicentennial ashtrays, cufflinks and toilet paper. Those television spots that have your favorite celebrities telling you what happened Two Hundred Years Ago Today will probably be reduced to noting the fact that Two Hundred Years Ago Today. Benjamin Franklin picked his nose. There will almost certainly be lots and lots of huge, teeming...