Word: hyping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most undergraduates, whether returning students passing by the postered kiosks on campus or incomeing first-years receiving flyers from the Institute of Politics (IOP), have been exposed to the "hype" surrounding HYPE '96--the IOP's upcoming political extravaganza honoring the 1996 elections...
...acronym for Harvard Youth for Political Empowerment '96, HYPE '96 will be a momorable event, according to its organizers, with food, games, speakers, booths and music...
...boss's re-election without diminishing himself. Clinton's normally understated political director, Doug Sosnik, gushes when the topic is Gore: "There's not one part of the country where Al Gore is not well received, not one group he doesn't do well with. It sounds like hype, but it really is true. He has reset the bar for measuring the effectiveness of future Vice Presidents...
Beyond the commercialism and hype of the Centennial Olympics [SPECIAL, Aug. 5] could be found a level of courage in individual athletes by which we can all be inspired. We must increase our awareness of terrorism yet not be paralyzed by its threat. Let Centennial Park become a monument to this endeavor. MARY E. NOCE Liverpool, New York...
...Media hype is ahistorical. Intimate electronic magnification causes the present vividness and trauma to override memory and the rational sense of historical proportion. We have all lived with the media effect for a long time and have made our inner adjustments to it. The trouble is that the left brain reads and the right brain watches television. The TV-watching eye takes in the explosion in Atlanta and the fireball over the ocean and the crater in Oklahoma City, and relays the shocking images to the center of the brain, which by reflex extrapolates a world menaced by terrorists...