Word: edna
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...centers of volunteers' brains and found that when the subjects were merely told to expect an electric shock, the neurological reaction to the anticipated jolt was as powerful as fears based on actual experience. "There is a lot of legitimacy to the idea that phobias can be learned," says Edna B. Foa, professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. "We respond to what we see or experience...
When people told him not to take Edna's act first to Sydney, London, and now to New York, he defied the establishment yet again...
Humor writer and actor Barry Humphries, best known for being the man behind Dame Edna, the "housewife and international megastar," spoke to a packed audience about his life and career in the Kirkland Junior Common Room on Friday...
After trying to expand to the U.S. the first time, he realized that it would be harder than in other countries, especially when a New York Times critic aggressively criticized Dame Edna, triggering the cancellation of the play for a few days...
...award was named for Edna St. Vincent Mallay and Vincent van Gogh, both of whom suffered from depressive illness...