Word: hyped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these areas, and the supreme entertainment value that each of them brought to the concert couldn't mask these weaknesses. The audience loved Morissette and Garbage for the pomp and rarity of embracing a mutual moment with cultural icons, but the relationship never cut deeper than the shared hype...
...reason is the same one that men should not be allowed to join the Rockettes: the show will not be the show if the other sex joins it. Personally, in all my college career I've never quite understood what all the HPT hype is about. If women joined and the form were to change, it wouldn't bother me much. But 151 years of caca-doody humor say I'm in the minority. And this year, if you're in the mood for the Pudding Show, you won't be well hung--I mean, hung...
...provincial Academy members just get so many things wrong. They consistently prove the victims of hype, campaign pressure, and seeming bouts of ignorance, laziness and forgetfulness. Let us examine the transgressions...
...song most people remember. Grandmaster Flash warned, "Don't touch me 'cause I'm close to the edge." Then there was Run-D.M.C. rocking the house, and the Beastie Boys hollering, "You gotta fight for your right--to party!" and Public Enemy saying, "Don't believe the hype," and Hammer's harem-style balloon pants. Then gangsta rap: N.W.A. rapping "F____ tha police"; Snoop drawling "187 on an undercover cop"; and Tupac crying, "Even as a crack fiend, mama/ You always was a black queen, mama." Then Mary J. Blige singing hip-hop soul; Guru and Digable Planets mixing...
Chris Taylor mentioned in his article "The History and the Hype" that "no one in the computer industry wanted to rock the boat..." by confronting the Y2K problem. Well, Apple Computer did, and thanks to the makers of Macintosh, Mac users do not have to worry about the Y2K bug in the operating system. Just imagine manpower expenses for those who did not rock the boat--whole nations could be given a free computer for every citizen. WOLFGANG SCHUBERT Tien Mou, Taiwan