Word: hysteria
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...Grace, Pastel is blithely unconcerned with everything going wrong around her, but always hints at the hysteria lurking just below the surface. Pastel’s performance is a wonderfully layered take on what could have been a stock “Desperate Housewives”-type character. Finally, as Tommy, Kimmey can flounce off in a huff like no other and is brilliantly funny, providing most of the play’s few non-guilty laughs...
...Barnum operated an entertainment complex in lower Manhattan that featured stage plays, vaudeville, freak shows, a menagerie and a somewhat insane museum of natural history. In 1850, Barnum promoted the first American tour of the first international superstar--the Swedish singer Jenny Lind, for whom he stirred up such hysteria that on the day she arrived in New York, almost one-tenth of the city thronged the wharves to get a glimpse...
...manufacturing plants could malfunction - to name some worst-case scenarios. There's also the worry of cascading failures. "Changing the time zone in some applications might throw others out of whack," says Ben Kus, senior technology director at BigFix, a computer management firm. Even if fears of Y2K hysteria are overblown, analysts say, many offices will be nettled by out-of-synch e-mail and Microsoft Outlook calendars - in other words, a lot of missed meetings. Rich Kaplan, Microsoft's vice president of customer service says the change will amount to little more than "a nuisance...
...ultranationalist M.E.P.s finally gathered enough members to create a formal caucus, giving them more political clout and making them eligible for E.U. funding. So immigration poses a two-part challenge for Europe: how to bring in the people it needs and how to do so without feeding the hysteria...
...late 1970s, at the zenith of the RAF's influence, the captains of Germany's Wirtschaftswunder traveled with armed bodyguards and avoided commercial airlines for fear of being blown out of the sky; police set aside civil liberties in a hunt for suspects that engendered something close to national hysteria. The RAF targeted and killed bankers, business titans, jurists, bureaucrats and policemen in a delusional campaign of "armed struggle" aimed at revealing a fascist core beneath the self-satisfied mien of West Germany's democratic institutions. In those "years of lead," West Germany seemed hopelessly at war with itself...