Word: hyped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Black professes not to understand why people identify her with the character she plays on screen. "I'm acting," she protests, "not playing myself," and friends loyally insist that her occasionally batty behavior is a hype. No one would deny, however, that she hurls herself into her roles with uncommon zeal. Drive, He Said originally got an X rating partly because of the ardor that Black and Co-Star William Tepper showed during one scene in the front seat of a car. After filming a nude scene, Karen can forget to put her robe back on. On one movie...
...real question is: Does anyone care? The hype of advertising works on such a different plane from conventional truth that it is a form of American Dada...
...have to ignore lines like that if you're going to enjoy The Towering Inferno, but the view that the movie itself is a monument to bullshit and concupiscence is unfounded. It's very easy to hype a popular film by calling it a cinematic masterpiece, as Pauline Kael has done so unfortunately with movies like Shampoo and Last Tango in Paris. The disaster film is an urban adventure, like a police or hospital melodrama, but the very magniture of the pseudo-events it chronicles--possible only on screen--give it a dignity beyond its intrinsic merit. When combined with...
Correction The newly-revived rock caps (suspiciously instituted last week to order to hype John Lincoln Wright and the Sour Mash Boys--who, by the way, are playing tonight through Saturday at The Club, a warehouse-like place on Main St. in Cambridge with better acoustics than Mather House last weekend but where you should leave your coat outside in the bushes because they force you to check your cost among other annoying little rip-off like the absence of draft been made a mistake last week when some roof at WHRB told me that the long rock orgy announced...
...getting a lot of publicity hype in the Santo Domingo press," said Whiting. "They even asked us for a picture of our team...