Word: hysterias
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Sullivan, standing in front of his false curtain at stage right, peered out warily at the hysteria. You could almost see him thinking, What is this? What's going on? Many of us in the press were equally bemused, as probably were most of the estimated 73 million viewers who tuned in that night...
Mass media begat mass hysteria, and the orchestrator was Orson Welles, who moved the setting of the sci-fi novel to New Jersey for a radio drama. Listeners heard a news bulletin break into a music broadcast and describe a meteor that crashed near Princeton and spewed fire-breathing aliens. They didn't seem to hear the network announce four times that it was fiction...
Greene and Faiman, in the lead roles, both spend most of their time on stage in fits of hysteria or rage. While both do well in their comic moments—Faiman, in particular, plays well against Porter’s lisping Olivia—their drama becomes overwrought and tiring at times. Most of Greene’s lines are delivered with shouting, banging and throwing, which gets to be a little too much in the small space. He seems lost whenever he delivers a low decibel line, often raising his voice towards the ends of lines, so that...
...declaration of world peace could hardly have elicited such joyful hysteria as the news that the new Harry Potter book is finally on the way. Within 24 hours of J.K. ROWLING'S announcement that the fifth installment of the series will arrive in bookstores on June 21, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix hit No. 1 on Amazon.com in the U.S. and Britain, and the stock of Scholastic, Potter's U.S. publisher, rose $2.99. Since the fourth book, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, was published in 2000, Potter fans have been frothing for Volume V. Such...
...where, one wonders, did hysteria go? Perhaps to the same place ADHD will go someday--back into the minds of the doctors who discovered it and the patients who were convinced they had it. Maybe some disorders behave like epidemics: they spread by contact, there's an immune response and they...