Word: ballyhoo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thought they were old enough to know better, but a lot of them believed the kind of ballyhoo that the students were shouting, or at least felt sympathetic that young people should be permitted to make their errors," he says. "That was what was really hard to cope with, almost impossible to cope with...
Despite all the ballyhoo about the $8 million price tag, the work onstage can appear modest, even a little tatty. The sets are mostly painted drapes, an awkward compromise between old-style realism and contemporary abstraction. There may be hundreds of costumes, but a lot of them look flimsy; they might have been basted together by the second-rate strippers in the You Gotta Have a Gimmick number from Gypsy. While the performers dance as brilliantly as one would expect from disciples of Robbins, most can't act very well, and there is not one striking singer in the entire...
...most striking of these, Vidal claims, is Teddy Roosevelt, who parlays ; the inflated Hearstian ballyhoo about his heroics on San Juan Hill into a political career that eventually, after McKinley's assassination in 1901, lands him in the White House. Empire is, to put it mildly, not kind to Roosevelt. Nearly all the characters extol his predecessor. Hay tells McKinley, "You may be tired, sir, but you've accomplished a great deal more than any President since Mr. Lincoln, and even he didn't acquire an empire for us, which you have done." Roosevelt, by contrast, is the "fat little...
...HASTY PUDDING Theatricals' choice of Sylvester Stallone as its Man of the Year has come amidst much ballyhoo and expression of outrage within the Harvard community. A slaughterer of senior citizens in the epic movie Death Race 2000 and an exterminator of Third World peoples in Rambo, Stallone surely does not merit one of the University's most prestigious honors, so say his Harvard critics...
...ballyhoo the two-seater sports car they will introduce this month, Pontiac executives summoned the press to a sneak preview in a cavernous auto plant. At the climax of the meeting, officials did not show off the car. Instead, they unfurled a banner displaying the result of their hard work. FIERO, it said, revealing the auto's name, which is Italian for "proud." It was no small disclosure. Detroit carmakers spend millions of dollars each year dreaming up prospective auto names, and they risk much more when they finally choose...