Word: hyped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...again against pesky John McEnroe in a splendid display of tennis. Nor can Tommy Hearns, who thumped the imposing welterweight Pipino Cuevas in a recent fisticuff duel that left even the boxing intelligentsia spouting nothing but superlatives. Nor can Roberto Duran, who showed that the impregnable wall of hype built up around welterweight Sugar Ray Leonard could be rammed through in a bare ring. Nor can the Soviet Olympic Committee, which continues to insists that the Olympics were an unmitigated triumph; nor can the U.S. Olympic Committee, which maintains that the Games were completely sapped of all drama and prestige...
Unlike many of her younger colleagues, Beebe is no newcomer to serious politics. A former state senator and director of consumer affairs in Michigan, this energetic grandmother skips the usual P.R. hype, preferring to outline what she sees as Anderson's challenging, but not unpassable, trail to the Oval Office...
...speaking "jive"--and endlessly repeated jokes--"Surely you must be joking." "I told you not to call me Shirley."--then you'll enjoy the film. But don't go expecting Woody Allen or even Mel Brooks--there's something very anticlimatic about this film after all the media hype. As in most films where the plot is the background for the jokes, there are as many dull moments as there are funny ones...
...these new classes may prove to be fascinating electives, a smorgasbord of diverse and arcane courses does not an educated woman or man make. The Core has settled in snugle as little more than a 26-page supplement to the already voluminous (766-page) course catalogue. Despite the media hype, it appears that after a half-decade of task force reports, interdepartmental committees and Faculty votes, all that is left, as one professor puts it, is Rosovsky parading before academia and the press in an emperor's new clothes...
Throughout the film, there is the feeling that bustle and activity arise not from a deep need to come to grips with the social forces that probably shaped the lives of its young creators, but from hype. It is not just a question of Davis' overextended performance but of scenes pushed out of shape by relentless, hard-driving direction, of a heavily romantic score intended to force responses out of the audience, of melodramatic cadenzas in the writing that are ill prepared for. The members of the Small Circle are not really involved in the larger events...