Word: hysterias
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...dryers decide to take two cycles to dry clothes instead of one. That aside, is it really necessary to stockpile, survivalist-like, condoms in house basements across campus? The answer is no. Questions of taste and aesthetics aside, a proliferation of prophylactics across campus can only heighten AIDS hysteria while doing little to combat spread of the disease...
...follow me to see if I met him in secret," he recalls. "She would telephone his apartment to see if I answered, then hang up. I was a substitute for him, and she took out all her anger and craziness on me. From her I get my tendency to hysteria. It was not a great relationship." It never improved: Sondheim has helped his mother financially but has gone through long periods of not speaking to her, and regales friends with darkly comic tales of her attempts to rile him -- making mementos of his shows, for example, but pointedly omitting...
...then lay it to rest. With human screams, the question is more complicated, since screams are not mechanical or automatic. Did you hear that, Harry? What could it be? A scream of delight, of fright? Hilarity, Harry? Do you think that someone is laughing too hard? Could it be hysteria, madness? Or ; is it a scream of blue murder? What should we do, Harry, if it is a scream of blue murder? And where is it coming from, anyway? Could you tell? I couldn't tell...
...mania sweeps the West. Every woman in Great Britain and the United States with hair has it remodeled into a blond, molded plastic do known as "the Di". It is the first time since Farrah Fawcett that such widespread female hysteria occurred in the free world...
...clear that Bruce had to tone down the hysteria with his next step. He needed to release an album that was more absurdly anti-commercial than Nebraska to alienate some of the excess audience...