Word: hyped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hype flows freely in such cases, and it is probably too late to make a strictly literary judgment of the Buru Quartet, whose concluding volume, House of Glass, has just been published in the U.S. by Morrow (365 pages; $26). The view here is that the quartet is indeed a marvel, but especially in its third and fourth volumes an exceedingly slow-moving and discursive marvel. The turbulent and bitterly angry first book, This Earth of Mankind, is the key to the rest, and though it is customary to say of concluding novels that they can be read independently, this...
...Yeltsin's prediction of a first-round victory so huge that a runoff wouldn't be necessary. "Believe what you want," says Dresner, "but there is never any justification for hype like that unless you're out to depress the turnout, which is the exact opposite of what we were trying...
Timed to coincide with the IOP's 30th anniversary, this September's HYPE '96 will be a political festival designed to reach out to the entire campus...
...spite of the hype, only 45 percent of the student body participated in the election, which was conducted over Harvard's computer network...
...have been happy all year with the effort and pride that the kids demonstrated," Anderson said. "The more experience you have with playoffs, the easier it is to put all of the distractions of the crowd and the hype behind...