Word: hyped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...culture of spin, attitudes churned up by mere hype may take on an enduring and powerful life of their own -- in the economy, in the culture, in government and law, in people's lives. That is why the attitudes of one sex toward the other need to be looked...
...January. Festivalgoers complain about the overcrowded screenings (nearly all the hot films are sold out weeks in advance); reporters snipe about the proliferation of cellular phones on Main Street. Even Redford, speaking to the filmmakers / gathered for the closing-night awards ceremony, felt obliged to take note of the "hype about cellular phones and jets. That's outer-space stuff. It doesn't mean anything . . . This festival is for you." Actually, the place could use a few more cellular phones; making telephone contact with anyone at Sundance is a festival of frustration...
Part of the answer lies in American society's love for lust and violence. As Mary Nemeth writes in the weekly Canadian news magazine, MacLean's, "...other countries have their lurid scandals. But for sheer volume and variety the American experience--amplified by a hype machine that marries the age-old fascination with sex and violence to the modern miracle of high-tech communications--is unrivaled." Viewers of CNN apparently were so engrossed in courtroom testimony that when the channel switched to coverage of President Clinton's visit to Kiev, angry Bobbitt watchers clogged network phone lines, After...
...sudden uproar is any commensurate increase in crime generally. The FBI figures for the first six months of 1993, the latest available, show violent crime down 3%. Crime overall was down 4%. But the national psyche doesn't make seasonal adjustments. Whatever the latest backlash owes to hype and hysteria, it is also a response to a festering problem. Most crime is down or leveling out, but only when compared with the high plateau it reached in the late '70s. It's hard to take comfort from the news that the murder rate, though lower than three years...
...Macintosh computer has never lacked for enthusiasts ready to paint the machine with cosmic significance. More than any other personal computer, the Mac comes wrapped in hype, most of it directly traceable to Steven Jobs, former chairman of Apple. He loved to tell his designers that the computer they were building -- with its icons, its pull-down menus and its mouse -- would not only change the world, but also "put a dent in the universe." As if to hammer his point home to the rest of America, Jobs launched the new machine in January 1984 with the famously melodramatic commercial...