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“So, the usual LJ kerfluffles (and ballyhoos) are frustrating for me, because people are expected to write with a voice of ethnic/racial/gender authority.”
“Either way it's a story that deserves attention, especially since the speaker constantly ballyhoos her experience, presidential readiness ( "on Day 1," etc.) and the like.”
Hillary Hits Critics For Taking Her RFK Assassination Remarks "Out Of Context"
“NBC Universal Universal Studios 'Super Bowl ad, above, ballyhoos a promotion.”
“Vinnie Rattolle ballyhoos TCM's Friday night lineup.”
“An expression in our faces as we drift by the fastidious ballyhoos of the shop windows.”
“But for all the nine-jointed impressiveness of its title this park was a live, brisk little park full of sideshow tents sheltering mildly amusing, faked-up attractions, with painted banners flapping in the air and barkers spieling before the entrances and all the ballyhoos going at full blast -- altogether a creditable imitation of a street fair as witnessed in any American town that has a good live Elks 'Lodge in it.”
“From humble Nova Scotia origins," the guidebook ballyhoos, "Anne Murray has amassed more musical awards and accolades than almost any female singer in history.”
“Isn't it odd that America's own version of the Christian Taliban, which seems to have infected almost the entire Republican party, also ballyhoos how much they love being in a country of "freedom", when they are doing all they can to take it away?”
“The industry ballyhoos that it has been spending up to $5 billion annually on capital expenditures, but two-thirds of that spending is on maintenance and only one-third on new process equipment and machinery.”
“Shankar's ballyhoos for his previous films have just proved its dichotomy.”
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