Word: hype
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...would have thrived on it. A more serious flaw is the film's musical score. It is not as objectionably cute as that of Water Birds, in which whooping cranes mated to Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody, but it is bad enough. Presumably it is supposed to hype up interest, but jaguars are too accomplished at scene stealing to need help from massed violins...
...when a lot of kids are around; they all started to laugh ... I didn't have the money to buy a cap [shot] with. Danny said he'd give me one; he said it real quick. That's what they always do, any hype that wants to get you hooked so you'll score [buy] from him." Amy was hooked...
...Dide Hype's Blue team threatened to make a rout of the game when it scored again at 4:10 of the second quarter. A pass from Greeley to Collins put the ball on the Closed 20-yard line Dunster fullback Lou Tsavaris went through the line to the 9, and Jim Wykoff of Winthrop drove over for the score. Halftime score was 19 to 7 in favor of Open...
...horseplaying, teetotaling, coffee-drinking (up to 40 cups a day, some said) legend. It was a legend clad neatly and gaudily in $200 suits, loud Charvet ties, studs and cuff links made out of gold pieces-and shoes at $50 a pair, broken in for him by the late Hype Igoe, a sports scribe who also wore size 5B. Like most rich Broadwayites, Runyon commuted from Manhattan to Miami, and could "remember when Miami Beach was so quiet you could hear the jellyfish walking along the ocean sands...
When the men came into the ring, the odds were 3-1 on Nova. But what went on after the opening bell made mugs of many an expert-John Kieran, Hype Igoe, Jack Dempsey, Jim Braddock, Tommy Loughran. Not since the day of Elbows McFadden had fight fans seen such a bar-roomy brawl. In the first round Tony butted and backhanded. In the next, he wrestled and elbowed. Then Nova, whom the trade calls a get-even fighter, forgot his boxing orders and set out to get even. From then on he never had a chance. Tony butted, gouged...