Word: hysterias
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...sort of farce: "He received an early lesson from a patient who always wore gloves because she said she had the stigmata. It was a little while before it occurred to Blaise to ask her to remove the gloves. She had the stigmata, and was later successfully treated for hysteria...
Unfortunately, the film takes frequent detours into the realms of paranoia and blind hatred. There is a portrait of a white Italian cop (Don Gordon) so foamingly, arbitrarily vicious that it moves beyond believability into hysteria. That is the worst territory possible for a social documentary, albeit a fictional...
Simple Dignity. The shouting and the hysteria did not stop for years there after, but Lindbergh managed to retain his simple dignity. "He stood forth amidst clamor and crowds," said...
Suspicious Greeks. Everywhere there were the tragedies and anomalies of war. One Turkish plane hit a Nicosia mental hospital, killing at least 20 patients and throwing the rest into a panic. One small boy rolled on the ground in hysteria and chewed pieces of broken glass. Greek Cypriots defending Nicosia periodically popped into available apartments to sip soda and listen to radio reports of how they were doing. But strangest and saddest of all was that the first battle between Greeks and Turks in seven years had been touched off by bitter animosity between Greek and Greek. The root...
...generation of younger photographers whose sensibilities are roused by the urban mess, from trash to glitter. Adams' work is criticized for being indifferent to the flow of historical time and documentary "relevance," a recognized exception being the photos he took of Japanese Americans persecuted in the anti-Nisei hysteria during World...