Word: hysteria
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Leaders of the Colorado boycott are already being counterproductive by wanting to penalize a state which is actually relatively supportive of gay rights anyway. Many urban areas had already legislated various right for gays before the hysteria surrounding the Clinton presidential campaign diverted attention from the amendment, allowing its supporters to barely push it through in a 53-47 percent vote...
Then it all became a bit confusing, a pungent brew of alcoholic reverie and post-election hysteria. Clinton broke 270 votes, and the hall seethed with delight and unrestrained hugging. Perot took to the dance floor and Bush, looking rather pleased with himself--"Look Barbara, I've lost an election. Aren't I clever?"--committed the decade's most revealing slip in thanking, yes thanking, Governor Bill. Democrats in the hall took their long-awaited chance to fondle each other, election results from God knows where flickered seductively on screen, and, oops, that was my last drop of the noxious...
...contains, among other matters, madness, incest, something very close to fratricide and an abortion the consequences of which reverberate down the years. All of this is reflected in Crick's face and manner -- full of suppressed torment -- and in the eerie, sweetly stated hysteria of his barren wife, Mary (Sinead Cusack), who endures false pregnancies and indulges in kidnapping in an attempt to fulfill her need for motherhood...
...POWER LINES CAUSE CANCER? Numerous reports in the popular press have blared out warnings. Frightened citizens have abandoned homes located close to high-tension wires; others have gone to court to keep the lines away. The reason for the hysteria: a growing number of scientific studies suggest that the risk of leukemia and other malignancies rises with exposure to electromagnetic fields, which are generated in varying degrees by all electrical devices from high-voltage power lines to hair dryers...
...your civic duty. If you don't vote, you're lazy, ignorant, apathetic, damn near a traitor. This message, shrieked every four years, has not been persuasive. The percentage of eligible voters who go to the polls keeps dropping toward the 50% mark. But the result is greater hysteria...