Word: hysteria
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...most part, though, Winslet's professional m.o. isn't hysteria. "Once I've dealt with something, got it all out - you know, vomited and wept and had the big discussion," she says, "I move on." She approaches her characters with curiosity and determination, with an anatomist's keenness to discover what makes them tick rather than a narcissist's desire to refashion them into glibly "relatable" versions of herself. She annotates every corner of her script, which resides in a satchel with a Dictaphone, a notebook, a camera, a pencil case, snapshots and any other tools she thinks...
...rest of us, case studies say, become obedient and quiet. An instant camaraderie unifies strangers on a sinking ship or a bombed-out subway car. The overriding sound track is silence. After the Hudson crash, TV reporters badgered passengers, incredulous that there had not been shoving and hysteria. But if we asked all the survivors of all history's mishaps, we would hear the same patient reply: No, people were pretty calm, actually. Which is not to say they weren't terrified...
...episode prompted the physician and social scientist - best known for his work on the social "contagiousness" of characteristics such as obesity and happiness - to write a commentary, published in the British Medical Journal, questioning whether these so-called precautions are snowballing into something more like a societal hysteria...
...shock of enduring the three-day siege of its most famous hotels has jarred Mumbaikars - and fired media hysteria - in a way that, curiously, the city's long history of terror bombings and violence never has before. However, lost in the eulogies to those trapped within the Taj Mahal hotel and the Oberoi-Trident, are the 56 people shot on the same night at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, a central rail station for the transiting working class. It was the highest death toll for a single site during the three days of chaos. Many of the dead there were laborers...
...respects to the family of a fallen commando on Sunday, he was barred from entering the house by the soldier's father. These moments of anger convey a growing public sentiment that the security crisis demands an end to the cynical games of Indian politics. "When the anger and hysteria subsides, questions of governance will come to the forefront," says Sharma. "Whoever fails to deliver will have...