Word: paranoia
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...time, money and effort I've put into it." By the fourth chapter, I was as much an accomplice to Dyer's quest for experience as his poor Parisian sidekick who smokes marijuana for the first time while on a romp around Paris. In an explosion of weed-induced paranoia she asks Dyer why he does drugs. "It enables one to enter the Zone," he answers, "the dream space of the city...
...declared: "London stages a big comeback - a moribund theater climate has turned itself around." Stewart, best known as an X-Man and sometime Star Trekker, was last seen in the West End 17 years ago, but his performance in The Master Builder, Ibsen's claustrophobic study of obsession and paranoia, has won adulatory reviews. After the first preview at the Albery Theatre, the actor was plainly exhausted as he sipped champagne in his dressing room. "It's so draining," he exclaimed, in mock agony, "How can I do this for 10 weeks?" Fiennes takes on an even tougher challenge...
...Michael Kinsley gave George W. Bush credit for Gulf War II and called him "the real thing: a leader" [ESSAY, April 21]. That statement could not be further from the truth. True leaders were men like Churchill, Lincoln and Kennedy, who inspired resolve, hope and optimism, not fear and paranoia. President Bush has a habit of inspiring the American people through fear. He has no place among the august ranks of real leaders. It pains me that our elected officials have the ability to manipulate the American populace through fear, the lowest common denominator. KEN RICHLIN Long Branch...
...SARS virus would be quarantined in their hometowns without the locals' consent or knowledge, riots erupted in various parts of the country, from villages near the northern city of Chengde to those in the central province of Henan. The turmoil is the most extreme manifestation of a SARS paranoia fueled by a public increasingly distrustful of government propaganda and fearful that their rulers no longer have their best interests in mind. Intensifying this unease is a vigorous rumor mill that turns careless speculation into doomsday fact. "We don't know whom to trust anymore," says one peasant manning a makeshift...
...Floch-Prigent estimated Elf handed out about $5 million per year to the political parties, but Sirven quickly claimed that the amount was "very, very, very, very much higher." Why would Elf make potentially illicit payments to French politicians? Le Floch-Prigent's rationale had a touch of paranoia to it: "Elf is a French company up against the Anglo-Saxon world," he told the court. "We are David against Goliath. Our politicians had to support us everywhere. In Africa, for example, if we got into a war between Socialists and Gaullists, we wouldn't know where...