Word: phobic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When you get hysterical and phobic behavior, it tends to focus on a particular obsessive object, and I appear to have become such an object for Mr. Egan."--Wolff, in response to Egan's remarks...
...line: "The law in its majestic equality forbids all men to sleep under bridges . . . the rich as well as the poor." Freedom is a feast to which the poor are not wholly invited. On the other hand, one thinks of Howard Hughes in his Las Vegas hotel, naked and phobic, living in his own penthouse gulag...
...criticism. The ruling, cheered Ira Millstein of the American Jewish Congress, gives "no aid or succor to anyone who wants prayer in the public schools." Agreeing with that analysis but not the result, Republican Governor John Ashcroft of Missouri, a born-again Christian, denounced the court for its "phobic response to the six-letter word prayer." Conservative Activist Paul Weyrich, recalling earlier obscenity cases, objected, "It means the f-word is protected, but you still can't think God." Cried Michigan State Representative Ethel Terrell: "What has happened in the Supreme Court is unconstitutional, according to the Constitution...
...York-phobic contingent that has been vindicated by the actions of the past five weeks is correct in thinking that Goetz's actions proved what they had suspected all along--anything terrible can happen on the subway, and probably will...
Fearless or phobic, most skaters are also romantics, including the superathletes among them. Says Hamilton: "I'd like everybody-Rosalynn and Elaine, Peter and Kitty-to come away from this year satisfied with what they've done, and ready for the rest of their lives." Zayak, for her part, is not thinking much beyond the Olympics, the grand chance to redeem her string of failures. "It's made me mad," she says, "and when I'm mad, watch out!" -By Kurt Andersen. Reported by B.J. Phillips with the U.S. figure skating team