Word: hysterias
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...check ALL OF THE ABOVE. "It can be like medical student's disease," says Wilson, "where we think we have every new disorder." Evidence for this, he says, can be found in the fact that disorders tend to vary over different cultures and over time. In Freud's day, hysteria was all the rage--a problem experienced mostly by women, who formed the bulk of Freud's clientele. Nowadays this diagnosis is rare. A doctor who ventures it risks getting slapped...
...just came up here and started wailing. She was on the verge of hysteria. My heart reached out to her,” he said...
...Mutt's got absolutely no shame about being a commercial record producer," says Joe Elliot, lead singer of Def Leppard. Lange produced Def Leppard's 12 million--selling arena-rock classic, Hysteria, but his commercial sound works in almost any genre. His favorite trick is to pile layers of vocal takes--sometimes several dozen--on top of one another, giving his singers a lush, smooth sound. Then Lange uses key changes, drum fills, cowbells, chants, effects and spoken interludes to keep the listener's attention. These devices make Lange's music particularly popular with radio programmers; research shows that...
...Food and Drug Administration (FDA) banished gay donors from the blood supply almost two decades ago admist national hysteria and confusion surrounding HIV. Gay men were dying by the thousands at the hands of the mysterious disease, and media reports of heterosexuals transfused with infected blood only fueled anxiety. With public confidence in the blood supply shattered, the FDA was willing to take drastic action to avert crisis. The resulting gay ban remains in effect today...
...upcoming men's clothing line, which he announced in August. But though he's happy to expound on matters sartorial - "classic with tones of late fifties-early sixties California," is how he describes his style - Malkovich has far more on his mind than fashion. Malkovich's new production, Hysteria, has drawn critical raves and been hailed as a high point of the new season at the prestigious Théâtre Marigny. The play, a Freud-meets-Dali folly that Malkovich first mounted three years ago with his home troupe at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater, is his directorial debut...