Word: hyping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SUPPOSE IT'S ALMOST AS NOBLE TO LIVE in Minnesota as it is to live in Wisconsin [ESSAY, Nov. 27]. Every word of Garrison Keillor's Thanksgiving offering was a treasure. What a relief to be reminded that the hype can only get to you if you let it. I will pay attention and be joyful to the funny, genuine parts of life that serve as reminders of what is right in front of me--the beauty of the accepted moment. Thank you, Garrison, for conveying the message of a holiday not gone astray. COLLEEN ALLGOOD Rhinelander, Wisconsin...
...their goal to break the so-called "Wintel" dominance over the computer market (the large number of users using Microsoft products on Intel-based machines). While this announcement certainly raises the question over the future effectiveness of the personal computer model, realistically, Ellison and his peers are spewing hype rather than predicting the future...
WELL, WHAT DID YOU EXPECT to find in the Abbey Road vaults--Al Capone? The hype preceding last week's debut of Free as a Bird, the Beatles' first new single since The Long and Winding Road in 1970, was so intense that anything short of the world premiere of Beethoven's 10th would have been anticlimactic. The clock on the Sunday edition of abc's Beatles Anthology didn't help: Two minutes to Free as a Bird ... one minute ... 15 seconds ... as if it were a countdown to a very special Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year...
...kidding? We do not drive some 120 miles to watch football. I mean, with all due respect to the players, the game is rather tangential to the dozens of tailgates, parties and concerts that bring together current undergraduates as well as hordes of alumni. It is the hype surrounding The Game that attracts so many fans from two schools, neither of which normally has a very pronounced school spirit...
...individual who chooses to attend Yale over Harvard, of the few Yalies who had the luxury of that choice, essentially shies away from the glory and hype surrounding Harvard's name. The student is not interested so much in attending what is reputed to be the best school, as in attending the school that may be most comfortable...