Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most claustrophobic westerns ever made," says TIME's Richard Schickel. "It's a movie that deliberately shuts itself off from the clean, redeeming beauty of prairie, mountain and desert, and takes the celebrity metaphor, which is at the heart of most gunfighter westerns, into new realms of darkness and hysteria...
...Phyllis, Sarah Burt-Kinderman progresses nicely from vain air head to vamp to madwoman. Her sarcastic banter with Bishop in the play's first scenes has something, appropriately enough, of Katherine Hepburn's archness. She is especially impressive in the rape scene, where Phyllis' revulsion and hysteria are truly disturbing. Even in the play's worst scene, in which Phyllis recalls a nightmare about fat men in skirts which comes dangerously close to moralizing about sexual intolerance, Burt-Kinderman is effective and at ease...
...FUTURE WILL PROVE THAT FRANCE was right in conducting its nuclear tests. A lot of people agree with President Jacques Chirac and respect his decision to carry out the test, despite the hysteria that Greenpeace and others are trying to spread everywhere. Don't imagine that the French people are against the nuclear testing. Did you see 1 million French in the streets of Paris demanding the cessation of the nuclear tests in French Polynesia? No, you did not, and you will not, for the truth is that we agree with the decision of our President. NICOLAS NOLF Grenoble, France...
...dethroning of Vanessa Williams, the first winner of color, after sexually provocative photos surfaced. Race, creed, age, all have clouded the show. But like the winner at the moment of coronation--brandishing a mile-wide smile as she sobs on the edge of both the runway and hysteria--the pageant proves that pretty can be messy. It serves as a kitsch microcosm of a conflicted country. Miss America is America...
...budgets: the "new media" departments of businesses anxious not to miss the Internet boat but still profoundly skeptical. If the ads don't generate product sales, they could quickly dry up. "A lot of advertisers lined up to throw money at this stuff because they were caught in the hysteria about the Web," says Karen Burka, an electronic-marketing analyst at media consultant SIMBA Information. "But now they want to know how you make money selling a $1.59 bottle of dish detergent on the World Wide Web." There may be better ways to make 'zines pay. Kyle Shannon, who started...