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Critics hyped the face-off between New Republic theater critic Robert Brustein and black playwright August Wilson over Afrocentric theater as "the intellectual version of extreme fighting" (Frank Rich, the New York Times ). But the debate was judged to be a flop--lots of combative bravado and little payoff.
I see from the papers that the Y2K consultants are already extremely defensive, insisting that the problem wasn't hyped and that their $100 billion price tag was worth it.
In Internet chat rooms, it was hyped as 1) a once-in-a-lifetime event; and 2) yet another reason to view the millennium as extraordinary.
A winter storm blanketed the Midwest . Weather experts hyped it as one of the worst snowstorms in decades.
Blair Witch was obviously heavily hyped, and the buzz on the film was good, which undoubtedly made selling the film to theater owners easier than it would otherwise have been.