Word: phobias
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Over the years. Hughes developed a fetish about cleanliness, a phobia about germs. Talking with Mike Wallace on CBS News' 60 Minutes, Irving recalled how Hughes classified people he came in contact with, rating them from A to D-filthy, moderately dirty, dirty and moderately clean. He noted that Hughes in talking with him about Katharine Hepburn particularly liked the fact that "she was a very clean woman who used to bathe three or four times...
...that he is liberal, an original Nader's Raider, a summer writer for the New Republic. He will say nothing more. He already seems to have acquired Nixon's phobia of the press...
...evidence of the potential effect of television on children, Kagan cited an experiment by Stanford professor Albert Bandura in which children with "an authentic phobia of dogs" learned to approach them after seeing incidents so television of people playing with dogs...
...only phobia I have that I know about is heights," said Paul Newman. "I get clammy even watching somebody else up in a tree." So there was Newman near the top of a 90-ft. Oregon pine, hauling up a chain saw and hand ax. It took a film, of course, a version of Ken Kesey's novel, Sometimes a Great Notion, to induce the actor-acrophobe to do lumberjack stunts. He reported two weeks early in order to work on his timber technique with a real north-woods logger. "It takes a lot of acting," Newman admitted...
Pastore's Complaint. (Pas∙'t r∙ēz K m∙'plānt), n. A phobia against violence and sex on television, exacerbated by recent disturbances in American society and by the Noxzema "take-it-all-off" commercial. [Named after Rhode Island Senator John O. Pastore...