Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though director Jeremy Blumenthal has assembled an excellent cast overall, certain performances are especially appealing. In Shanley's Welcome to the Moon, Marwan Haddad perfectly juxtaposes the roles of an insecure teenager and a man who can't even kill himself successfully, switching from adolescent angst to teary hysteria with ease...
...began to check our geneologies. Are our fathers bald? Are our uncles bald? Are our maternal third cousins bald? What about the dog? In the height of hysteria, we ignored the basics of genetic research. After intense soul- searching, each of us concluded: "I won't be bald. Yeah, that...
Dismaying though the financial trends concerning Japan may be, economics alone cannot explain the current media attitude any more than the immigration levels of the early 1900s could explain the Nippon hysteria of those years. But modern-day Japan is hardly a suitable candidate for press pity. American reporters have a duty to be tough minded in their exploration of Japanese business practices. Yet publications have all too frequently reached for easy headlines and analyses that evoke some of the worse aspects of the yellow- peril era. That is unfortunate. For, to the extent that coverage of Japanese business...
Bates suggests that COCA's intent in sending the draft cards was to "generate hysteria" over a "highly improbable U.S. war in the region." For the record, The New York Times reported yesterday that U.S. pilots were flying night-time bombing missions over San Salvador. In addition, the 55 United States military advisors in EI Salvador are presently engaging in combat, and U.S. warships have moved to EI Salvador's coast...
More significantly, however, COCA's distribution of the memo was an irresponsible attempt to generate hysteria among undergraduates when, given the current inequities in our system of military service, there was clearly no need to do so. It also represented another example of COCA's highly selective and skewed portrayal of current events in Central America and of the United States' role in them...