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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...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: Political Machines | 12/10/1987 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stephen Sondheim: Master of the Musical | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Screams From Somewhere Else | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: The Windsor War | 10/31/1987 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: Married in the U.S.A. | 10/13/1987 | See Source »

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