Word: hypes
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...believe the hype. The Bush plan is an incomplete, inefficient proposal that would only exacerbate America's health care woes. What seems like a good liberal plan is actually a prescription for ruin...
...media hype alone was enough to drawothers to the overflow seating of the ScienceCenter...
...classical recordings rarely garner the type of hype that the record industry lavishes on more popular and profitable items, but there are exceptions. Advertisements for the "Three Tenors" concert (with Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras) appeared in such unlikely places as subway stations, illustrating the successful use of a formula that was first demonstrated by the soundtrack from Amadeus. It goes like this: In order to guarantee a popular success with a classical recording, bring together popular (and relatively well-known) music, big names and a good pretext, such as a movie or a memorable concert...
...unlike the "Three Tenors" concert or the Amadeus soundtrack, a new recording of Otello is the kind of project that must stand up to a close critical scrutiny. The field is already crowded with acclaimed readings, and a new comer can't rely on big names and hype to make a successful entry...
That's one explanation for why every shooting and stabbing in Jerusalem makes headlines here, while on the home front only cases like Dahmer's become news sensations. It doesn't hurt that bloated news staffs in Israel, under pressure to produce copy, tend to hype tensions between Palestinians and Israelis...