Word: panic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scrawled on the photo were the disturbing words, "Mochas or the mutt dies!" Taking it as a prank, she ignored the missive. Soon a second Polaroid arrived; this time a gun pointed at poor Mickey's head, the message implicit. Despite the assistant director's rising panic, the producer refused to take action. She sternly responded, "Kill the mutt!" A third picture arrived: Mickey splayed on the ground, eyes closed, the gun lying beside him. Mocha service was promised to be reinstated on a daily basis...
...center of things--pervades the local mind-set. One explanation might be all the gold--gold, the traditional hedge against inflation, the currency of fear. As anyone who has seen The Treasure of the Sierra Madre knows, gold tends to fuel a peculiar cycle of euphoria, panic and suspicion. In Eureka, where a new mine is opening up, the hills around town are being graded and bulldozed in preparation for dozens of fancy new homes. Eureka's Cuchine fears the houses are a rip-off, a scheme by the mining conglomerate to sell real estate that it knows will...
...stocks. Who is this new-age superhero? None other than Supergeek, a.k.a. the mild-mannered computer kingpin, Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft. Last week, after Gates agreed to pump $1 billion into Comcast Corp., Wall Street revalued the entire industry upward by tens of billions of dollars. A buyers' panic rippled through the cable world, and the Standard & Poor's index of cable stocks rose...
...bathhouse for a homosexual tryst. It wasn't until the condom broke and he saw the blood that he blanched. Had he picked up HIV, the virus that causes AIDS? The next morning, he called his physician, Dr. Stephen Boswell of the Fenway Community Health Center, in a panic. Could the doctor please do something to help...
Cage revels in revealing Middle-American desperation, the panic at knowing one has to get through the day. Even when he plays the sweetest people, he creates a roiling emotional subtext. There is odd stuff going on inside; he's wild and weird at heart. So he will furrow his brow and gaze doggily at the speaker, as if he's trying hard to listen to your problems so his head won't explode from all of his. Yet he can see the humor in himself. Says Shirley MacLaine, his co-star in Guarding Tess: "Nic winks...