Word: hysterias
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...Bend over! Touch your toes! Good! Again! Good! Again! Yes! Fantastic!" The ever-smiling aerobics instructor, who I shall call Satan, brims with enthusiasm to the point of hysteria. If she spoke this way on the street, she would be arrested for inciting a riot...
...menace do not synergize as hysteria, the way they did in Fatal Attraction. This film is relatively calm. But it is worth taking in because all concerned catch the tone of New York's besieged multitudes. Their weariness is touched with hope, and their hope with irony. Their realism transforms what might have been an item easily overlooked by the moviegoer into something worth collaring...
Instead, Dinkins appealed to the rational majority of New Yorkers--those who knew that, despite the mood of hysteria that had engulfed the city with the hot and humid summer air, a majority of New Yorkers of different races actually wanted to get along...
...mayor is the one symbol that can inspire people to change their attitudes and return a city from hysteria to harmonious sanity. I can't be sure--but that encounter outside Penn Station might not have happened if New York had voted for another four years of Ed Koch...
...served to glamourize the menace they are decrying. Then there are the social-policy conservatives who purport to see no connection between the flagrant neglect of the economic problems of the underclass and the current crack epidemic. And sad to say, well-intentioned parents can also contribute to the hysteria by viewing drugs as the sole cause of their children's problems, rather than as a symptom of family-wide crisis...