Word: hysterias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sabra, bordering Shatila on the north. Using bullhorns, they announced to terrified residents that they were Israelis, and demanded that the Palestinians assemble in the street. Some heeded the call, while others were forced from their homes at gunpoint. The wailing, screaming throng was in a state of collective hysteria. Said one man who survived the ordeal: "We knew what they had been doing in Shatila. We were sure our time had come." The militiamen fired into the air several times in an attempt to restore order; at one point, they also ordered the crowd to clap hands in unison...
...during his most celebrated U.S. tour. But the result was consistent: With a devastated crowd as proof, Springsteen affirmed nightly his status as the quintessential American rock hero. Springsteen's 1980-81 tour--each concert frenetic, fresh and at least three hours in length--has few parallels. For pure hysteria, last year's tour by the Rolling Stones and the current Who circuit following the release of their new album are close comparisons. But Springsteen's shows did not simply arrest and frenzy people. The wealth and breadth of the New Jerseyan's songs forced the packed crowds to think...
...substantial: an erratically egomaniacal star (Joseph Bologna); an aggrieved hoodlum (Cameron Mitchell), convinced he is being satirized in one of the regular sketches and determined to have violent revenge; a writing staff headed by a man (Bill Macy) who knows only three emotions-panic, depression and obsequiousness; the general hysteria surrounding the weekly production of a program that is broadcast live, without benefit of retakes. To guide him through all this in more or less upright condition, Swann is placed in the hands of a junior writer named Benjy Stone (Mark Linn-Baker) who is also a senior admirer...
...story on the herpes epidemic not only reports public hysteria but participates in promoting it. One simple, helpful fact, vital to prevention, is that herpes is almost exclusively transmitted during its active phase. Herpes victims do not have to withdraw emotionally or sexually during the dormant phase, which is most of the time...
...their bite, particularly the latter, which sounds downright cheerful. Though the Stones have mastered the art of making studio productions sound spontaneous, they have never succeeded consistently in producing top-notch concert records. Only Get Year Ya Ya's Out (1970) comes close to preserving the on-stage hysteria and thumping power of a concert engineered by Jagger and Richards...