When Veronique opened the door to the studio, the crew was already hyped at wrapping up the series.īehind them the video begins to hype some new cocaine substitute, guaranteed nonaddictive, the audio filled with the tasteful hissing of compressed gases, the delighted exclamations of a young couple obviously in love.Įmerging from the hype at a suitable intercept point and making the snatch without alerting the prey would be much trickier, however, unless I found an appropriate comet to conceal my exit flash at the other end. The Hype cops would go to other sectors, looking for smugglers carrying other drugs, drugs she did not know the names for, and the Federation laws against traffic in dorazine would lie unused, unapplied - except in cases where people tried to smuggle dorazine out of Sardonyx Sector to some other sector. To witness history being forged, to share the confidences of candidates on the cusp of the White House, to take part in the hype and hoopla of our quadrennial rite of democratic decisionthat all seemed a splendid adventure. Walker will be trying to derail production of the A-100 by hyping figures the government will spend on the program. In a rational, logical world, a person who dislikes marketing hype as much as I feel I do would glide righteously beyond it, instead of approaching the object - in this case, a book- with a peculiar amalgamation of disdain and a curious hope that the book might actually live up to its billing.

They had let Walla-Walla be their treasure chest, the container of their priceless alumite, including the last four statues that the hype men had helped carry tonight.

Promotional overkill