Word: hysterias
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...fever. He knows all the tricks to turn my shot-phobic toddler from shrieks to smiles. (A bouncy tennis ball and a Thomas the Train sticker usually do the job.) And he keeps on taking my phone calls despite knowing better than almost anyone my capacity for neurosis and hysteria. ("Are you sure that's diaper rash and not Ebola?") We talk early in the mornings (call-in hours start at 7) and on weekends. During ear-infection season we see each other about once a week. Lately I've been thinking about asking him to move in with...
Vice President Cheney has always prided himself on imperviousness to Beltway hysteria, since he has no plans to seek the top job. But it was that very detachment, which President Bush has generally seen as an asset, that helped produce the missteps in the aftermath of Cheney's weekend hunting accident. The PR crisis has now thrown the White House off its intended message - heard much about health savings accounts lately?- and raised questions about its ability to handle a crisis...
...staff had prepared an elliptical statement about a hunting accident and were considering releasing it on Sunday morning. But Mary Matalin, the well-known Republican strategist and former counselor to Cheney, said the statement "didn't say much of anything." She said she thought it "would have invited hysteria," and that "a fuller accounting, with an eyewitness" would be preferable. Matalin said she talked with a Cheney staff person around 8 or 9 a.m. Sunday, and talked with the Vice President shortly after that, and that his concern was "what's an expeditious way to do this...
...which Radical Disk Jockey Mark Slackmeyer ends a surprisingly fair "Watergate Profile" of John Mitchell with the remark that "everything known to date could lead one to conclude that he's guilty. That's guilty, guilty, guilty!" Trudeau later explained that he was only trying to parody the hysteria of Nixon foes, but dozens of papers excised the panels. In an editorial, the Washington Post huffed: "If anyone is going to find any defendant guilty, it's going to be the due process of justice, not a comic-strip artist. We cannot have one standard for the news pages...
...identified with her sense of longing, and for her role as Charlotte in “Lost in Translation,” it was a sense of displacement.“In this case I was very intrigued by the desperation of my character and the kind of hysteria that comes from that,” she says. But she draws the line at extending any further comparisons between herself and Nola. When asked if she would have reacted the same way as her character in a climactic, hysterical scene in the film, she seems slightly put out and sternly...