Word: hyped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which is Hersh? Despite the pre-publication hype, most of his claims have been reported before. To many of them Hersh adds some further bit of substantiation or at least some suggestive new tidbit. If anyone still doubts that Kennedy was a one-man Roman orgy, Hersh's chapter on his most reckless adulteries will be useful reading. And although historians like Arthur Schlesinger Jr., who was a member of Kennedy's inner circle, insist that it is "an exercise in political fantasy," Hersh helps elaborate stories that Chicago Mob leader Giancana helped deliver Illinois to the Democrats...
...fact is that no one knows how severe this El Nino will be. There is nothing wrong with making preparations for the possibility of an extreme event. But other than being good for the umbrella business in L.A., the El Nino hype is simply stirring fear...
...stage awaited them. Here, they played such songs as "Crazy Woman," "The Last Time" and "Sympathy for the Devil" isolated in the very midst of the thousands of screaming fans, without any lights or effects to distract. If their point was to show that they didn't need the hype to be good, than they proved it well, as the crowd seemed to feel a special connection with the group during this segment. This absence of spectacle only made it seem more spectacular when they then walked back to the main stage to perform several last crowd-pleasers. The lights...
...band that calls its publishing company All Songs Sound The Same Music, they displayed little awareness of how little difference down-tempo songs and complicated arrangements made to the record's sound. It wasn't bad (wasn't terrible, anyway) but people who bought the album, bought the hype and subsequently bought the back-catalogue noticed that Mac McCaughan's ragtag quarter sounded like a Superchunk cover band...
...HYPE PATROL...