Word: hysteria
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...instincts Berlinger may have honed over the years can't help his script, co-written with Dick Beebe, which unfolds with all the imagination and genre-challenging of a "Tales From the Crypt" episode. The premise at least taps nicely into the vein of last summer's Blair Witch hysteria as a quintet of twentysomethings journey into the infamous woods of Burkitsville on a kind of "Blair Witch Reality Tour." The jolly crew includes Jeff, scruffy leader and ex-mental patient; Kim, resident goth chick; Stephen, aspiring writer on all things Blair Witch; Tristen, girlfriend of Stephen; and Erica, self...
...Every day, two o'clock, "Hysteria"--it's a history cartoon! I love it. I love it!," she says. "Three o'clock is "Dungeons and Dragons"--I just realized it's back on the air. And then "The X-Men" come on at four...
...back of the Boeing 737 began collecting Coke cups and pretzel bags. Suddenly, Jonathan Burton, 19, jumped into the aisle from his seat near the wing and started pacing back and forth. Then he bolted to the front of the plane and turned around. His eyes revealed his hysteria. "Everybody just sit down!" he yelled. "Everybody just sit down...
Like figure skating at the winter games, women's gymnastics makes every other sport at the Summer Olympics look positively banal. Nowhere else can you find such intense drama, so much crying and hysteria and so many tiny, oppressed waifs. But who could have possibly envisioned the tragicomic-mystery that unfolded this week in Sydney! Let's relive the high, low and just plain weird moments...
...some, the lessons have already been gleaned. Says Henry Tang, chairman of the Committee of 100, a Chinese-American advocacy group: "The Times started the story, and others jumped on it without waiting for any official substantiation, and this clearly helped create the hysteria...