Word: hysterias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Balance-the-budget hysteria must be preceded by a balance of trade and by balancing the scales of justice. No jobs, no justice. No justice, no peace. This is not a threat, it is therapy. It is not talking about the problems of jobs and justice that will interfere with peace in our cities but the failure to respond to the just demands of the poor...
Carter deserves the most blame for irresponsibly aggravating war fever; his absurd statement that the invasion of Afghanistan constituted the gravest threat to world peace since World War II has become a sitting target for commentators. But behind Carter's hysteria stands a serious policy of confrontation with the Soviet Union that makes no sense internationally, though plenty for Carter's domestic political survival...
...twisting line looked endless. Women fainted, even screamed in hysteria, as the hot sun and high humidity baked the seedy, aging airbase at Opa-Locka, on the outskirts of Miami. Nevertheless, the line kept growing. Finally, it stretched to contain some 10,000 people, all waiting to get a simple but cherished piece of paper. They called it a planilla (little plan), a Government form on which they could list the relatives in Cuba with whom they hoped to be reunited...
...amazed and appalled by TIME'S biased, closed-minded presentation of research on the effects of incest. TIME reacted with the very hysteria researchers are attempting to understand in their effort to aid victims of incest. It would seem reasonable that the guilt engendered by such hysterical reactions may cause far greater damage to the victim than the actual act of incest...
...eerieness of the final slaughter is heightened not only by its verisimilitude, but by the movie's one extraordinary performance. A young actor named Powers Boothe captures all the paranoia, sexual magnetism, hysteria, rage and even intelligence of "Dad" Jim Jones. His final incantations to the dyingdelivered in a feverish but strangely disembodied voicecreate a more deathly mood than all the corpses piling up onscreen. If Writer Tidyman had only matched Boothe's talent with a complexly written role, Guyana Tragedy would be as notable as drama as it is as ratings gambit...