Word: hyped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With a pinch of decorating savvy, some hype and publicity, Lamont Library could easily become the student center everyone craves. Here's what we can do to make Lamont a livelier, more sociable place...
With a rally backed by so much hype, activists also run the danger of overplaying their hand. The real cost of yesterday's events is that the Faculty and administrators, having made a token concession on one issue (full disclosure of merchandise factory locations) will be quick to pass over still-pressing issues like a stronger rape policy, fair disciplinary proceedings, Faculty diversity and better advising. There can only be so many rallies on this busy campus before student interest wanes and Harvard ceases to listen...
Peter Weir, The Truman Show. Peter is in trouble for a few reasons. First, Truman was released months before any of the other nominees. The film has been out of the public eye for too long, and the lack of current hype will take its toll. Second: since the film was Jim Carrey's break-through dramatic role, viewers remember this cautionary tale as an actor's triumph, not that of a director. Third, and most damning: Weir did a good job directing Truman, but perhaps he was too good for his own good (say that five times fast...
...sure enough, now it is one, opening last week off-Broadway with a contradictory set of expectations. On the one hand, it's a rare case of a musical with lots of hype potential that has emerged fully formed--book, lyrics and music by newcomer Paul Scott Goodman--with almost no advance publicity. On the other hand, the musical is burdened, rather unfairly, by comparisons with a very different show, Rent, simply because it originates in the same downtown theater (and with the same director) as that trend-setting hit. Can theatrical lightning strike twice...
...Tracey Takes On...Hype (3) Linda appears on a talk show to bad-mouth a friend...