Word: hysterias
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...given blood tests and be instructed to "plant grass" to control the lead dust and to "keep [their] homes clean." That advice did not satisfy many subcommittee members. Said Hernandez in explanation: "If we went out and started running bulldozers around, we'd end up with even greater hysteria...
...truce that is called gets broken quickly. "Chasing royals is like a drug, an addiction," says Writer Ashley Walton of the Daily Express. The Queen's press secretary, Michael Shea, mutters about sanctions, but the Tower of London is open only to tourists, not prisoners. "A new wave of hysteria has gripped the more sensational press," he laments. "Anything to do with any aspect of the royal family, no matter how minute, is treated as a huge news story...
...with a large birthmark on her cheek and a mischievous smile in her eyes tells a virginal girlfriend: "You don't know what it's like to be ugly and still feel beautiful." An angel-faced teen-age boy, whose ardor for Fascism amounts almost to sexual hysteria, is shot by some of the villagers he tried to kill; seeing this, his Fascist father flies into a fatal jitterbug of despair, burrowing his head into the hard earth. Cecilia, at six the youngest of the fleeing villagers, finds the ordeal a delicious, dangerous game, like hopscotching through...
...played a similar character to Elaine in Woody Allen's mediocre "A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy," but she seems to have lost some versatility, Granted, this script does not call for a wide emotional range, but surely the woman can do something besides act perplexed and frightened. Borderline hysteria can be mildly tiring. Hayes's Ted, with matinee-idol looks, seems to have a better grasp on his character's emotional range. But in a film like this, great acting is not of the essence. The cast provides sufficient body for the swift and silly script; they...
...Food and Drug Administration in Washington counts 270 incidents of suspected product tampering that have been reported around the country in the month since those Chicago-area deaths, and the total swelled rapidly last week. It clearly has been inflated by the hysteria of consumers who blame any nausea or headache on poisoned food and medicine; the FDA so far judges only 36 of the incidents to be "hardcore, true tamperings." Still, that was more than enough to send real rather than make-believe chills coursing through many parents as Halloween approached...