Word: hysteria
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Michelangelo has created so much hysteria, he said, because" it is a dramatic virus, a time bomb. It does something spectacular, in this case spectacularly destructive, at a specific time people know about...
...language lover Leader explained the entymological roots of many commonly used words. The root hyst, it turns out, is derived from a Greek belief that the womb was a organ which circulated around the women's body and tickled her, causing hysteria...
...high-estrogen birth-control pill (which was also rushed to market after hasty and dubious testing). A cynic might point to the medical profession's long habit of exploiting the female body for profit -- from the 19th century custom of removing the ovaries as a cure for "hysteria" to our more recent traditions of unnecessary hysterectomies and caesareans. A cynic might conclude that the real purpose of the $500 million-a-year implant business is the implantation of fat in the bellies and rumps of underemployed plastic surgeons...
...they have serious questions, or do they come in here with the hysteria and passion and racism that has been bred into them?" Jeffries asked the moderator, Williston Professor of Law Roger Fisher...
Donald Trump's jet is gone, his yacht repossessed, his casinos are ailing, but he still has plenty of financial advice. Anybody care to listen? . . . The art market collapsed after its 1980s hysteria. Old masters still fetch a fortune, but the products of hustlers like Julian Schnabel have fallen off the wall . . . L.A. Gear, the trendy sneaker outfit that not long ago talked of whipping Reebok and Nike, has proved that when it comes to athletic shoes, fashion is fleeting . . . Louisiana voters were spared the ex-Klansman and instead got the twice-indicted womanizing gambler. Some choice . . . Clark Clifford, former...