Word: claustrophobia
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...organizations. Those were the years when he memorized the physical contours of every U.S. theater of even minimal consequence. Thus certain houses were turned down on bids to show The Godfather because they were too narrow. "It is a three-hour show, and I did not want people getting claustrophobia," says the impresario...
...midst of their four-year interment are keeping their eyes on CHUL, the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life, which will spend the entire year trying to effectively combat overcrowding. If the committee fails, perhaps UHS, the University Health Services, will offer undergraduates a pill to ease claustrophobia...
...combination of events--the bust of the group, and the problems in the South End--began to register, I felt a momentary feeling of claustrophobia, the knowledge that the whole city was falling apart, and here I was to see the Rolling Stones; the insulation was frightening. At any rate, Chip Monck's near-continuous status reports--NASA style--were instrumental in keeping a possibly nasty crowd occupied...
...does not go far enough. For nightmares, like movies, end. Bacon's images, on the other hand, are thrust at us as the enduring substance of reality. They are not fantasies, but observation slits into a Black Hole of Calcutta, in which man thrashes about, stifled by claustrophobia and frustration, stabbing with penis or knife at the nearest body. This, Bacon insists, is the real world; it defines the suppressed condition of actual life...
...complaints about mosquitoes, the altitude, faulty plumbing, dysentery and pickpockets were unending. Dubbed "Claustrophobia Manor" by the athletes, the barracks-style housing for the 4,000 competitors from 33 countries was woefully overcrowded. Wary of trouble from students who had protested the amount of money that Colombia was spending on the games, security-minded officials turned the athletes' village into a kind of jock concentration camp. "I felt uneasy at first with the barbed wire and the guards carrying rifles," said U.S. Fencer Marie Grompone, "but you get used to it after a while -almost...