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The most difficult category to conceive, though it does exist, is that of figures who are underrated and also overhyped.
It is, of course, easy to think of figures who are both overrated and overhyped.
Hype derives from hyperbole , and when it came into use in the '60s, it was used, in much the way overhyped is used today, to refer to something praised far in excess of its value ("Sergeant Pepper has been hyped as a masterpiece, but the fact is, most of the songs on it aren't of the first rank").
Uncomfortable with religion and culturally out-of-step with fundamentalism, the boys and girls on the campaign buses overhyped a phenomenon that they didn't understand--the rise of the Christian Right.
In part, it did sound like a classic case of a movie that in two weeks went from being a sleeper to being overhyped, so that people who saw Blair Witch after, say, August 6 were led to believe they were about to see the greatest horror film ever made.