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Tut-tutting the fixation of newspaper sub-editors on short words like probe and row because they fit in headlines, it adds, somewhat pompously: These words usually hype the story, and that is never our job.
Movie -- Primary Colors hype;
The annual Hollywood hype issue is as immense (414 pages) and gushy as usual.
Hype in the sense of excessive or false publicity goes back much further than the 1960s (Collingwood's suggested decade of origin)--to at least the 1920s (per the Oxford English Dictionary ), which is the same time that hype is attested to as a verb and noun associated with drug use, and the word is explicitly linked to hypodermic . The OED , the Dictionary of American Slang , the Barnhart Dictionary of New English , and the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang all make the hypodermic connection.
But although online fund raising has yet to catch on in any serious way, there are six good reasons to believe at least some of the hype about how big it may turn out to be before the 2000 election cycle is over.