Word: hysteria
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...general concern over the current and proposed reductions in aid to education and what Ylvisaker calls the "negative impact on the spiritual leadership side" One official from the DOE assuring that the department is committed to excellence in education, says that this kind of reaction represents "almost a hysteria," unwarranted by the size of the cuts...
...labor unions and a modest land reform that expropriated only unused fields, including much of United Fruits holdings--were hardly those of a Marxist revolutionary Nor did they pose a lethal threat to United Fruit's interests, its fruit-producing lands remained untouched But America, caught up in the hysteria of McCarthysim and the Cold War, flinched. The reflex to react immediately and decisively against any perceived danger to the capitalist status quo, in the United States or abroad, became highly developed Arbenz, a flawed politician in Schlesinger and Kinzer's eyes was nonetheless a true pluralist and certainly...
Hendrik is a minor actor correctly convinced that he is harboring a major talent-and desperate to the edge of hysteria to escape the provincial stages of his early years. He is discovered in his dressing room throwing a tantrum, while outside, in the theater, someone else is happily drowning in the applause he pathetically needs and will do anything to get. Do the Communists, with their workers' theaters and cabarets, offer him showcases? Very well, he will be a Communist. Does a rather distant and chilly woman offer him social advancement and a way into Berlin...
...closets already in the room. The four actors from the other two plays reappear as the major characters in the comedy of misidentifications, adultery, and murder. As Pepita Passionelle, Wagman expressively plays the emotionally fluctuating role of a neurotic actress. In one scene, she breaks into an uncontrollable hysteria then suddenly reverts to her previous composure. Samuels as Camembert, La Passionelle's husband, portrays the scheming, jealous husband with the proverbial evil, insane glimmer in his eye. Camembert is madly jealous of his wife's affections for La Mole, played by Randolph. Randolph, as the foppish lover, saunters around...
...even find their minds drifting back to the original Cat People (1942), from which this picture is less adapted than knocked off. Perhaps the most sophisticated horror film of its decade, it begins by considering a condition that might have served Freud as a case study in sexual hysteria. A young woman named Irena believes that if she makes love she will turn into a leopard-whereupon a man falls obsessively, irresistibly in love with her. Thereafter, through the play of sound and shadow, Director Jacques Tourneur suggests that it might be a good idea to take...