Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...WORRY, GET ANGRY! Sometimes it pays to get mad. In a small study published in Biological Psychiatry, subjects who made angry facial expressions in stressful situations--like having to count quickly back from 6,233 by 13--had smaller blood-pressure spikes and lower levels of stress hormones than those who responded with expressions of fear...
...Cheddar Ted argued with a volunteer about how to produce “the opposite of a question mark.” Amid this mayhem, something had eluded us. Even though we had lit literally hundreds of jack o’ lanterns in the pouring rain and taken some mad creepy photos, we felt that same emptiness that often results from eating an entire bag of candy corn. Just then, we spotted Stollichnaya whiling away at a particularly massive pumpkin. Totally enraptured by the task at hand, he stood silent, solemnly committed to carving the most profound pumpkin...
...Number of pre-packaged meals for Hurricane Katrina victims from the U.K. rejected by U.S. aid agencies due to a U.S. ban on British beef over mad cow disease...
This version is strongest where most shorter productions fail: in Act IV, where, in Hamlet's absence, Ophelia goes picturesquely mad while the star gets to catch his breath. Winslet's decline is an edifying horror show; Christie gives all her urgent glamour to Gertrude's one big speech; and Michael Maloney's subtle power as Laertes makes him a kind of good twin to the melancholy Dane. Hamlet, after all, hates his stepfather because he seduced the lad's mother and killed his father. But Laertes has similar reasons for hating Hamlet, and here he has the same carnal...
...guess." THE 10 OF CLUBS praised the attack, which kills Smurfette, as a "brilliant practical application of psychology" to jar today's jaded world out of complacency. And ERIK'S RAMBLINGS warned of more carnage, imagining a PETA ad with "the Care Bears being shot by some mad hunter drunk on lite beer...