Word: hyped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...LEADING British rock weekly New Musical Express would have us believe that New Order is now the "world's leading" rock group, a compliment that is no surprise since NME and other British music rags have long led a monumental rock myth that is as much hype as it is substance...
Like all of these shows, E.T. is a part of the phenomenon it covers, another wheel in the publicity machine it seeks to explain. Many of its features perpetuate rather than puncture Hollywood myths. Notes a senior segment producer, Helaine Swerdloff: "There is a fine line between hype and news." The question for E.T. is which side of that line it will settle...
News & World Report last month reported on WHO RUNS AMERICA. The first ten, as judged by "leaders in 29 fields," are Washington governmental figures, from Ronald Reagan down. In twelfth place came Rather, who doesn't make news (or laws) but just reports it. Even when the hype on the magazine's cover is reduced to the actual question posed inside -Which individuals exert "the most influence in national life?" - Rather's high place (much as Walter Cronkite's had before him) seems faintly ridiculous...
...former CIA analyst, Samuel Adams to whom CBS paid $25,000. But Adams had previously made his case elsewhere and often: in congressional testimony, in court, in a Harper's article. To this old story CBS added the engrossing dramatics of witnesses defending themselves. The network also added hype, although it now regrets referring to a "conspiracy." Conceding some flaws in the preparation of the program, CBS still defends its accuracy. Using some on-camera witnesses of his own, Carter criticized CBS for lack of balance: "Even if you're sure of guilt, there's a vast...
...show of paintings and bronzes opened last week at the Leo Castelli gallery in New York's SoHo district, is the most promising of the artists who have emerged from Italy in the past few years, floating to New York City like putti on roseate, gaseous clouds of hype. Because they share the same initial and transplanted nationality, Chia, Enzo Cucchi, 32, and Francesco Clemente, 31, tend to be bracketed together as the "three Cs." In fact they are very different painters. Chia's light-operatic gifts have little in common with Cucchi's mucky, doom-laden...