Word: fright
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...screen hangs high above the audience, displaying not only the lyrics to her songs but most of the patter in between them. Critics who caught her first concerts in London were derisive. Streisand claims that she hardly ever looks at the prompter but needs it to relieve the stage fright that kept her away from live performing since a 1967 free concert in New York City, when she forgot some song lyrics. "I couldn't be doing this ((touring))," she says, "if I didn't have it as my security blanket. Some people have worry beads; I have TelePrompTers...
Unable to restrain his laughter, DeVore was forced to reveal himself. But not after giving his students a real fright and leading them to question the wisdom of embarking on a wilderness adventure with a unpredictable scientist...
...home in the apartment the police had targeted. An informant had told them that drugs and guns were stashed in a second-floor room at 118 Whitfield Street. With a "no- knock" warrant, they burst into the home of the Rev. Accelynne Williams, killing him with fright. Had the cops checked their records, they would have learned that a drug warrant issued last September targeted an apartment on the third floor...
Sadly, I cannot accept your request as to do so would compromise the anonymity necessary to be Harvard's most trusted advice source. In addition, I suffer from stage fright and cannot bear public speaking. And finally, I hear that you Harvard students are in the habit of protesting your speakers. No thank you, ingrates. After all I've done...
Then Harding filed a $25 million lawsuit against the U.S.O.C. The Committee took fright--and caved...