Word: hype
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...EVGENY KISSIN: CARNEGIE HALL DEBUT CONCERT (RCA, 2 CDs). For once, a Russian pianist who deserved all his pre-debut hype. In September 1990, before the toughest audience in the world, Kissin, then 18, wowed 'em with Schumann, Prokofiev, Liszt and Chopin...
...Hype is hype, but surely it cannot be the whole story. Being told that you are depressed, or ought to be, can be mildly depressing. But you have to be reasonably demoralized in the first place for such a suggestion to have serious effect...
...Dersh, we wish oodles of media hype...
SCARLETT by Alexandra Ripley (Warner Books; $24.95). This gilding-the- cornflowe r sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind is at last in the bookstores, amid megabucks of hype. And frankly, my dear, it's not worth a damn...
...similar machine that was introduced by Commodore in January, and CD-ROM, a system for playing CDs on Apple and IBM-compatible personal computers. Even Nintendo has announced plans to attach a compact-disc drive to the latest version of its video-game machine. "After years of public relations hype," says David Bunnell, publisher of a start-up magazine called NewMedia, "multimedia finally is for real...