Word: hysterias
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Macy is an ace at doing hysteria in a narrow range, and Buscemi scores as a sick goofus whom one witness IDs as "funny-lookin'--more than most people even." There's enough gore to make this a Mystery Violence Theater. After some superb mannerist films, the Coens are back in the deadpan realist territory of Blood Simple, but without the cinematic elan. Fargo is all attitude and low aptitude. Its function is to italicize the Coens' giddy contempt toward people who talk and think Minnesotan. Which is, y'know, kind of a bad deal...
Rice and Harvard each achieved provisional qualifications for Nationals in the attention-grabbing distance medley relay. Spectators were on the verge of hysteria during the first two legs of the relay where Harvard struggled against Rice's sprint power...
...jobs to foreigners willing to accept low wages. "Employers should be able to obtain skilled foreign workers," the Senator says, "but not with an abandon that leaves 1.1 million skilled young Americans chiseled out of jobs." He dismisses criticism of the bill as "a very deft operation of near hysteria" and asserts, "We're not trying to do one damn thing to [hurt] American competitiveness...
...teenager; a rich, smarmy suspect; a crafty defense attorney--it paled only next to that other courtroom drama in L.A. 3 THE BEATLES ANTHOLOGY (ABC) Remember an age of rock so innocent that young stars actually enjoyed being famous? The grand old geezers--Paul, George, Ringo--recalled the genial hysteria of Beatlemania in a three-night show of rare clips and rockin' good music. Nostalgia nirvana...
Wild Bill, which is one of the dankest and most claustrophobic westerns ever made--a movie that deliberately shuts itself off from the clean, redeeming beauty of prairie, mountain and desert--takes the celebrity metaphor into new realms of darkness and hysteria. Written and directed by Walter Hill (48 HRS.), it presents Wild Bill Hickok (Jeff Bridges) as a moron with a fetish: if anyone touches his hat, he will shoot him. Not that he really requires an excuse to ventilate any and all comers. It is just that this is what the man does when he's not repairing...