Word: hysterias
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...given the health challenges that currently face different parts of the world, describing entire Western populations as sick seems a bit of a stretch." Perhaps what most needs letting out is not the pants of the average Jack and Jill, but some air from the bubble that is obesity hysteria...
...Roosevelt privately expressed his "melancholy" over the South's "violent chronic hysteria," blacks looked upon Roosevelt as a savior and anointed Washington as their hero. The President vowed to invite Washington to dine "just as often as I please." But although Roosevelt consulted Washington throughout his presidency, neither the Tuskegee chief, nor any other black person, ever supped at the White House with Roosevelt again...
...ended, so did the couple's relationship. Perhaps the passion burned out; perhaps the hysteria of the Weeping Woman became too much for the artist to indulge. By 1946, Picasso had taken up with 25-year-old Fran?oise Gilot, whom he had met three years earlier; he offered Maar a house at M?nerbes in Vaucluse. They were to see each other only once more, at a friend's house in 1954. Picasso had almost 20 years of work left in him; Maar, by then a recluse, survived him by 24 years. When Baldassari was invited to catalogue the contents...
...NEWater exceeding World Health Organization guidelines. Greg Leslie, associate professor of chemical engineering at the University of N.S.W., worked on Singapore's scheme with engineering firm CH2M HILL, which is proposing to upgrade Toowoomba's sewage-treatment plant. Leslie thinks objections raised to such schemes in Australia verge on hysteria. "I can't fathom anyone in their right mind saying they wanted to drink sewage," he says. "But drinking highly treated water is a completely different kettle of fish." Given that desalination also uses reverse osmosis-a process so precise it can remove chemicals and contaminants at the molecular level...
...perhaps the whole week of lamentation was an electronically stimulated hysteria, an ersatz binge catered by press and television barons that will be followed some morning soon by a massive letdown and hangover. Or again, maybe Diana's too brief life and meteoric streak across the world's consciousness enraptured people by its mythic qualities. A ballet shoe tied last week to the railing outside Kensington Palace was inscribed, "You were a Cinderella at the Ball and now you are a Sleeping Beauty...