Word: hysteria
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What does this say about us? Is the media suddenly pulling through with some Y2K common sense? Has the wisdom of our leaders preventing the forecasted hysteria? Or are Americans simply unable to handle two holiday buildups at once--and have opted for Christmas consumerism over New Year's millennialism? Maybe all the Y2K anxiety the nation's pundits have been expecting will be condensed into the week between Christmas and New Year...
...Combine the recent advances in technology and the booming Internet economy with a prodigious amount of musical talent, and you get Teenage Hysteria, the first album of Sean Bennett '01, which is currently topping the classical charts on MP3.com...
...Teenage Hysteria is not only an audio CD but can also be played as a CD-ROM which features a video presentation, photographs of Sean, the liner notes and each of the eight tracks in MP3 format. Visitors to www.mp3.com/Sean can also download samples from Teenage Hysteria. Bennett believes that downloadable music is transforming what historically has been a very political industry. "By having the option of putting out a downloadable song for most everybody, it really makes it more of a free-market system. Ultimately it will insure that those musicians who do have the most to bring...
DIED. ABRAHAM POLONSKY, 88, film-noir screenwriter and director who was blacklisted for nearly 20 years for refusing to name names at the height of McCarthy hysteria; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Polonsky, who won an Oscar nomination for the 1947 boxing film Body and Soul, continued to work in Hollywood pseudonymously...
...three fellow musicians, prominently displayed at center stage, perform even the most intricate pieces with style and success. Only four musicians? It is through its simplicity that Good is effective. A simple, logical rationalization--this is, according to the play, the premise underlying the rise of Hitler's national hysteria...