Word: hysterias
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America's addiction to drugs is not a foreign policy issue at all, but the candidates have pressed it into service anyway. Dukakis has even declared drugs America's No. 1 foreign policy problem. Such is the current drug hysteria that Bush has never even questioned the proposition...
...Eugene O'Neill family flaying. And yet the movie unravels as if it were an anguished parody of Shepard's own play A Lie of the Mind. He lured Lange and a cast of fine actors to Duluth, then stranded them on a back road halfway between Hysteria and Catatonia. Virtually every character is either deranged or noisome. The big debate is over which daughter loves Dad (Charles Durning) more: Kate, who insists on shooting the family horse, or Rita (Tess Harper), who wants to save it. The film should have been put out of its misery long before. They...
...major challenge for social policy in the next decade will be to decouple the images of poverty and Blacks, so that politicians who propose progressive changes in social policy aren't defeated by racist hysteria. The facts must be emphasized: twice as many whites are poor as Blacks, and more whites receive Assistance to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) benefits, what is commonly known as "welfare...
...publicity has triggered a certain amount of hysteria. Systems managers have imposed elaborate quarantines on their companies' machines. Computer columnists have advised readers to put their PCs under lock and key and, in one radical proposal, to disconnect their machines permanently from all data networks and telephone lines. Data-processing managers have rushed to stock up on antiviral programs. "We're seeing panic buying by those who have already been hit," says William Agne, president of ComNetco, which publishes Viru- Safe. When a virus showed up at the University of Delaware, the assistant manager of academic computing services immediately bought...
...traced and alerted. The measure's chief proponent, Republican Congressman William Dannemeyer, says he wants to correct the state's "absurd policy" of turning a "public-health issue into a civil rights issue." But Benjamin Schatz, a lawyer with National Gay Rights Advocates, calls the proposition an "AIDS hysteria law." The referendum measure, which has a good chance of passing, could affect the anti-discrimination movement nationwide. Few things are as influential in framing a developing legal landscape as some solid election returns...