Word: hysterias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan may not be as dumb as he lets on. He knows that drug abuse peaked in the early 1970s and has been leveling off ever since. Yet, at the same time, he also knows that anti-drug hysteria is the perfect way to make Americans ignore the rest of his pernicious policies. Ignore the fact that his Administration has seen the poverty rate escalate to its highest level since the late 1960s; the fact that he won't introduce stricter sanctions against South Africa despite opposition from even his most steadfast supporters; the fact that his elevation of Associate...
...participate in extracurricular activities this fall have begun to do the same. So will many college and professional athletes, policemen, stockbrokers, soldiers, power-company linemen and applicants for jobs ranging from executive to mill hand, keeping laboratories working day and night. With an enthusiasm that critics charge borders on hysteria, officials at all levels of government and private business are seizing on drug testing as one idea that offers real hope of containing the narcotics plague...
...patients. In Chicago, a charter-bus driver ejected 35 healthy members and friends of an AIDS fund-raising group last week, merely because of their connection with AIDS patients. "Here in Chicago, AIDS is still seen as a gay issue," one group member said. "I see a lot of hysteria." In California, a group calling itself PANIC (Prevent AIDS Now Initiative Committee) has placed a proposition on the November ballot giving health officials the right to quarantine all AIDS patients and carriers of the virus. Though unlikely to pass, it has stirred the most voter emotion...
...hysteria about drugs heightens, though, we would all do well to heed the words of Judge H. Lee Sarokin, who recently ruled that 16 New Jersey firemen suspended after failing surprise urine tests had to be reinstated, at least temporarily: "No matter how important war against crime and drugs, constitutional rights must not be sacrificed to win those battles...
This is precarious stuff, difficult to play at just the right edge of hysteria. Director Beresford, a big, comfortable, good-humored man, nudges the looniness in the proper direction. He is the right man for the job, Lange says, partly because "he really likes women. He enjoys their energy." The three actresses, each of whom has won an Academy Award, did not know one another before Crimes. They have maintained separate lives off the set. Lange lives with Playwright-Actor Sam Shepard, who plays her former lover in the film, their six-month-old daughter Hannah and Lange's five...