Word: hyping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pool at the Georgia Tech aquatic center was supposed to be the fastest in the world, but it yielded more surprises than world records (four). While teammates like Janet Evans and Amanda Beard got all the pre-Olympic hype, the charmingly gawky Van Dyken stole the show with an unprecedented four gold medals. Michelle Smith, another relative unknown from Ireland, a nation not heretofore known for its aquatics, won three races. The U.S. men's 4 x 100 freestyle relay team of Gary Hall Jr., Jon Olsen, Josh Davis and Brad Schumacher not only kept America's unbeaten streak...
...experienced technician, Tracy the supportive den mother. The group they assembled for the Olympics was older and more mature than the '92 group: three were competing in their second Olympics, and the average age was 18. Moceanu, the tiny 14-year-old who got the most advance press hype, was an exception that will soon be against the rules; for the 2000 Games, the minimum age for competition has been changed...
...newspaper ads. You've heard the radio commercials. You've probably even heard random people in the Square talking about it. It's been here before, and after much ado and praise, it's here again. You stop and wonder to yourself, "Is it really worth all this hype? Can any musical in existence live up to the expectations people have created for it? Most of all, is it really worth going through the hellish hassle called TicketMaster to get tickets to "The Phantom of the Opera...
MICHAEL KRANTZ has been fascinated by new media since the dawn of what he calls "the age of infobahn hype." He's a self-confessed recovering Doom II addict who has written about everything from Nintendo to nanotechnology; this week he covers Time Warner's all but completed acquisition of Turner Broadcasting. Before joining TIME, Krantz was a senior editor at Mediaweek and an indefatigable free-lancer (his work appeared in such magazines as New York, Rolling Stone and the New Yorker). He is also that lucky man who is happy in his job. "My field," he says...
...Eurotrash, Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller); and the human pitbull (and unintelligible) Begbie (Robert Carlyle). Wandering about, shooting up, picking women up, and so go their days and nights. They even throw in a drug deal to wrap things up. Unfortunately--almost tragically, fizzing with this much energy and hype--the film quickly tosses out the window any pretentions to portraying addiction or free-wheeling, troubled youth. Adapted from the popular Irvine Welsh novel of the same name, it hasn't so much lost something in the translation as added far too much film-y junk that leaves...