Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Smith he is just a whisper away from hysteria; moral innocence confronted with political corruption must erupt violently. In real life he gave up his career to join the Army Air Corps, distinguishing himself on bomber runs. But those clear eyes, as blue as the skies patrolled by the Strategic Air Command, saw terrible things. He returned to movies with It's a Wonderful Life, where George Bailey does good deeds in a small town that his ambitions were too big for; he is a hero because, with reluctant grace, he made the noble compromise...
...killed, his wagon burned, his mules slaughtered. He is lassoed and dragged through a campfire. His right hand is held down while a sadist shoots a bullet through it. His aw-shucks tentativeness turns to high-pitched sputterings. His thin frame is shaken with the outsize energies of hysteria...
...viewpoint I am putting forward is viewed as religious bigotry or mass hysteria, then it is no wonder why cults flourish," Kisser said...
...sending girls into fits of hysteria. At 25, her mum was photographing celebrities. At the same tender age, STELLA MCCARTNEY, daughter of Paul and Linda, is taking over from Karl Lagerfeld at the House of Chloe. McCartney had her own fledgling biz, but will work exclusively for the French label. It's not just her famous surname that got her the job. She studied fashion at London's Central St. Martin's College, which is where John Galliano (Christian Dior) and Alexander McQueen (Givenchy) learned their stripes...
...oxygen-generating canister. While the Russians insist everything is under control, NASA does not share their confidence: if the problems continue after Linenger's return to Earth in mid-May, the U.S. space agency says, it won't send up another American to work with the Russian crew. Unfounded hysteria, counters Blagov, who blames the agency's "over-reaction" on spaceflight disasters in 1967 and 1986 that killed 10 Americans. "Our record here has been far less threatening," concludes Blagov. Maybe. While the Russian space program claims only two deaths in its 36 years of operation, tight-lipped secrecy among...