Word: claustrophobia
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Waiting For Reinforcements MOSCOW: Hope nobody up there has claustrophobia. Russian officials now say vital repairs will be postponed, probably until a fresh crew arrives at Mir next month. But that mission's up in the air too now that the French have gotten cold feet about sending one of their own to the ramshackle space station. The Russians are worried about more than their image problem: if the French pull out, they'll be taking the money they were going to pay the Russians to conduct experiments aboard Mir. For the moment, things have settled down in orbit. With...
Computer geeks heralded the triumph of the virtual office. One public relations firm sent out a fax crowing that all its employees had made it to work, since they all work at home. It should have included their cure for claustrophobia. Said a Connecticut mother to the New York Times, contemplating yet another snowed-in day with her kids: "Amanda and I are getting along. It's Jordan you are going to see hung up by her toenails...
...preserve an authentic Kennedys-and-Roosevelts-slept-here feel in the dorms has created wide discrepancies in room size and quality. Three months from now you could be showing your quarters to a photographer from House Beautiful. Or you could be consulting a shrink about your newly-acquired claustrophobia...
Although "Shallow Grave" is very much an interior drama, Boyle's breezy direction fails to convey the characters' psychological domestic claustrophobia...
Adapting Havel's staging to the Loeb Ex, Rouse employs the small performance space to enhance the "stifling" claustrophobia of the living room setting. Surrounding the living room with a set of five doors, each leading to some degree of unknown or off-stage humour, the set designer (David Gammons) draws on the powerful effects of the drama's rhetorical structure to approximate the closed-in, yet exposed psyche of Leopold...