Word: hyped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remark betrays a certain tone-deafness. The Holocaust's memory, in this country far from the death camps, may be inflated and abused. But it seems perverse to argue on that basis that it is unworthy of American tears. This book should be read as a corrective to dutiful hype and dubious comparisons, not as an injunction against feeling...
...beyond the statistical discussion, little was said about the significance of the new century. No hype, no predictions, no buzz. Life moved on as usual once the accounting had been done. The upcoming millennium promises to be a different story...
...Like the hype swirling around the opening of "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace," we've been hearing about the approaching millennium for years. As a society, we've created the ultimate movie opening for a chronological turning point, complete with the merchandise--a consumer event for a consumer society...
...edition of The Crimson, with its brief look at the happenings of the previous century, is of course not the kind of in-depth review needed for an entire millennium. But its approach of examining the past in appreciation and then moving on to the future without hype, without fear of apocalypse or blind expectation of a momentous event, is worth emulating...
...hype swirling around Rockin' Eve 2000 -- concerts, dream vacations from Barbados to Giza--has put much of America in a tizzy to find something big to commemorate the split second that heralds the new year...