Word: hyped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chatter among the Longhorn partisans about taking on a bunch of Ivy League intellects? "Naw, I don't hype any game anyway, not whether it's Texas A&M, Arkansas, Houston or Harvard." And what's more, he was quick to point out, Texas may have 48,000 students, "but you still need a 1200 on your boards to get in, whatever that may mean to folks up here...
...longer the talks last without any visible progress, the more the U.S. initiative will fade. The European anti-nuclear movement will begin to stir again, accusing Washington of stalling and being insincere about arms reductions. Critics here will charge that the "zero-option" was no more than public relations hype, and American foreign policy will once again have been frustrated...
...kind of supercilious rancor and a free-floating hostility toward the intelligentsia. The late bird has got half the worm. The Right Stuff, his best book, sandwiched between his two weakest, The Painted Word and this one, showed how accurate an eye Wolfe has for manners, fantasies, customs and hype, and how he can rise to a kind of ravenous comic brilliance when engaged with a subject he respects. There is no feeling of engagement in From Bauhaus to Our House, no sense that he particularly cares about architecture at all, unless it can be shown up as the carapace...
Aside from media hype, though, there was a very real, very strong campus response to the cross-burning, Smith says, adding that students, faculty members and administrators united against the atrocity. Admissions officials expanded their visits to big cities, encouraged students to visit the campus, and tried to contact minority students individually to ease their concerns...
...only professional actor is Doug Llewelyn, 42, a onetime Washington, D.C., news anchorman and a former pitchman for Sears. He does the introductions, occasionally polls the studio audience for its reaction, and conducts post-trial interviews in a mock-marble hallway. Aside from such embellishments, and the musical hype, the unrehearsed program steers clear of game-show razzmatazz, and the result is a reasonably authentic legal confrontation. James Nelson, presiding judge of Los Angeles municipal court, believes after screening several episodes that the program could generate grass-roots support for the judicial system and induce viewers to take advantage...