Word: frighted
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...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...
...extremely nervous. As a print journalist, I rarely appear on TV, and knowing that everyone back home would be watching--and, I hoped, seeing me help convict a man who is still regarded as a hero in some quarters--didn't help me overcome my stage fright...
...manager of home and brood, and beyond that a sort of aproned activist with a penchant for keeping the neighborhood and community kettle whistling ... If she is not pregnant, she wonders if she is. She takes her peanut-butter sandwich lunch while standing, thinks she looks a fright, watches her weight (periodically), jabbers over the short-distance telephone with the next-door neighbor ... She wonders if her husband will send her flowers (on no special occasion), shoos the children next door to play at the neighbor's house for a change, paints her face for her husband's return before...