Playbill

March, 1987

You've Seen Them—the scare headlines, the magazine covers, the ads for TV specials blaring out yet another message of impending doom. If it's not AIDS, it's crack, herpes, Third World debt, sunburn or salt; by Thursday, you're afraid of something that you'd never heard of on Monday. In Crisisweek, Associate Articles Editor Peter Moore examines this phenomenon and its victims, with a little help from Lewis Grossberger and Paul Dickson. The trend's a classic case of overkill—a word that, not incid...