Word: hypes
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...usual media hype about who will be quarterbacking Harvard football Coach Joe Restic's multiflex offense has been heightened this year by the lack of any clear-cut choices...
...putative patron. In a group invited to Warhol's house after his death, Colacello takes the opportunity to steal into Warhol's private bathroom so that he can catalog the anti-aging cosmetics and acne ointments for inclusion on the last page of this book. These two creatures of hype and commerce masquerading as art may have deserved each other. But this book does not deserve even a Warholian 15 minutes...
...extent of NASA's sales hype became evident in July when the space agency announced that the station had to be extensively redesigned and simplified. An independent study had found that some 3,800 hours of spacewalking would be required annually merely to maintain the proposed station -- a figure drastically higher than the 130 hours NASA had estimated and far beyond the capacity of the current U.S. space program...
...Amid the hype surrounding the forthcoming Tom Cruise $60 million race-car epic Days of Thunder is the widely reported claim that the film left Hollywood preview audiences gaga with delight. In fact, some early responses were so grumbly or apathetic that the producers decided to take the star and his car back to the speedway at Daytona to reshoot the ending. Two more racing shots were added. Such tinkering with big-ticket productions is not so unusual in these days of compulsive market research, but the timing for this one was unusual: the new ending was filmed just three...
...Donald Trump fights to save his Atlantic City casino empire, he might cast an envious eye at booming Las Vegas. The desert Mecca of hype and high rollers is on a winning streak. Las Vegas casino revenues surged nearly 12% last year, to $3.2 billion, at a time when the take at Atlantic City grew just 2.6%, to $2.8 billion. The hot hand encouraged Las Vegas hoteliers to add 10,000 new rooms in the past year alone, a 16% increase. Last week more than 50,000 gamblers and gawkers flocked to the opening of the world's largest hostelry...