Word: hyped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...television news community howled?partly in laughter, partly in protest?when Arledge became president of ABC News in June 1977. (He remains president of ABC Sports and is executive producer of the Lake Placid Winter Olympics.) Journalists feared that he would bring game-show hype to the evening news, as described so chillingly in Paddy Chayefsky's 1976 movie Network. Arledge did little to allay those suspicions when, shortly after taking over, he devoted 19 minutes of one 22½-minute nightly newscast to a lurid account of the capture of an accused killer, the so-called...
...that politics would dismantle the 1980 Games. He believes, correctly, that the crisis of this XXII Olympiad may offer the opening to do so. The politics and commercialism of the spectacle should be radically reduced. Most athletes in competition neither want nor need the political extravaganzas and financial hype. To help rescue the Olympics from their present distress, in which this nation is unavoidably an accomplice, the U.S. might...
...that he is able and philosophically amenable to coercing corporate power into turning an eye off profits and onto the needs of the unemployed and needy. Critics equate Sullivan's view of his principles with that of the corporations which use the guidelines to their advantage. But the corporations hype their endorsement of the principles, implying that they are an end in themselves, while Sullivan sees them as a first step in an ongoing process...
...began to sense what I was up against, and the challenge fueled my interest. Suddenly, what was going on out on the ice--Harvard-B.U., a shot at the finals, bragging rights to the city of Boston, all that traditional Brahmin hype--was important and real...
Although David A. Keene, George Bush's political director, admits that polls in New Hampshire include "eight to ten points of Iowa hype for our candidate that will disappear," he nevertheless believes there has been a significant shift in grass roots support from Ronald Reagan to Bush in the race for the Republican nomination...