Word: phobias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...screen by others. "I had to do this at least once," he says. "This movie is a kind of mechanical Birds. People have been telling me for a long time that I was eventually going to have to bring the visual sense to my work." Does King have a phobia about failure? "You bet I'm frightened," he says. Of course nothing, not even The Shining, is scarier than bombing in Hollywood...
...Bossert story, the drowning, was the revelation of Marc Berkowitz, who as a twelve-year-old in 1944 had been one of Mengele's guinea pigs, and also served the doctor as a messenger boy. From his home in New City, N.Y., Berkowitz recalled that the doctor "had a phobia about water. He was afraid of water-carried diseases." Mengele told Berkowitz that he never swam in rivers or lakes. In Brazil, meanwhile, a dentist said that she had treated a man just like Mengele two months after the alleged drowning. At the same time, the coroner in the port...
...lines in the background. It seems as though the play was plotted first, with characters added as an afterthought. A case in point: Cherry Jones's first appearance as Jody Bobby's blue denim romantic obsession is very funny she's a biker's moll with a nuclear war phobia and a vearning for a little TECC. when sheappears next, she has undergone a complete metamore phosis from a lizzy devil-may-care funster to a kind but money-grubbing waitress. Thematically, Bobby offer clear expression of the leveling power of social intercourse: dramatically, Bobby...
...University of Wisconsin, a student named Stephen Mackey says, a little extravagantly, "Fascination with the Viet Nam War has just gripped my generation. The males in my generation are just obsessed. Theoretically and strategically, the war was really good. We're getting away from the Viet Nam phobia." Mackey will join the Marines this spring...
...roots of Japan's import phobia run deeper than its regulations. The Japanese are picky and often do not trust the quality of American products, much less Asian imports. Says Eric Hayden, an economist and a director of the Bank of America in Tokyo: "The Japanese are not going to take South Korean machine tools or Malaysian cars or Indonesian airplanes. Japan doesn't import that kind of stuff. The Japanese produce it, and better than any of these countries...