Word: fright
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...trustworthy feature is easily his smile, a lopsided thing that makes him look as if half his face is pleased with something while the other half is paying bills. Research at Columbia University revealed that when some people see fleeting, subliminally projected images of fearful faces, their brain's fright center lights up. If fear is infectious, perhaps a dishonest face makes us feel similarly slippery or a surly face leaves us feeling sour--hardly what politicians want to stir up in voters...
...Labor protections and human rights that our forefathers fought for and, in untold cases, died for are being tossed away as a result of the hype and hysteria being propagated by governments and Big Business. The media are also guilty. What we give away in moments of anguish and fright will be more than difficult to regain later. Disdaining our laws in order to protect ourselves makes us little better than the maniacs who seek to destroy our civilisation. Paul Jacobi Obermarchtal, Germany Of Royal Chromosomes You owe Japan's Princess Masako an apology for reporting that she "failed...
...others didn't deserve a say, as if the chance of success for me was more important than the certainty of fatherhood for my kids. I didn't weigh the risk to them until I lay bleeding in the bed of a humvee, too late to spare them the fright...
...Stage fright has never been a term in the dance vocabulary of Expressions Dance Company co-director Shana J. Cloud ’06.“Performance has come very easily to me over the years,” she says. In Cloud’s first performance—at the tender age of five—she replaced a soloist sick with chickenpox on the hallowed stage of Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center. According to Cloud, “After having jumped across that stage in front of thousands of people, there’s nothing...
...We’re down here in this basement and there are three cameras and there are 17 mirrors and we’re going to shoot the first 10 pages.’”She acknowledges her status, as well as her stage fright: “As intrepid as actors are, and as long as a career may be, you still are terrified of walking in front of people.”But as 13 Oscars nods will attest, for now, Streep can handle the pressure. —Staff writer Lindsay A. Maizel...