Word: paranoia
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...dumb sport, printing up sports cards and playing it outside the Today show set; and going to the post office dressed as the sketch of the Unabomber. The four (unlike most troupes, theirs includes a woman) met in Chicago, where they did time at Second City, developing their punk paranoia. "We all had fun doing the theater thing," says UCBer Matt Besser, "but throughout the seven years, the overriding goal was to get this thing on TV." Starting Aug. 19, their TV show will follow South Park on Comedy Central...
...believes about nature vs. nurture, it's hard to argue against the common-sense view that spending time with worthy male mentors is a good thing. But his eerie near dismissal of mothers gets in the way of his often sensible argument and devolves on occasion into a paranoia about a world dominated by manipulative women. He calls Gloria Steinem a "victim" feminist. Women, he says, do not see "how neglected their emotionally disadvantaged adolescent sons feel" as a result of women's lack of interest "in male biology and thus its forgetfulness of the subtleties of the male soul...
Janet Cousrouf, Rimrock's director of nursing, says crank carries with it almost a two-week residue of paranoia. "Since the detox time is longer than most companies are willing to pay for, our biggest problem is insurance...
...PATTY'S PARANOIA PAYS...
...likely anyway. But that hasn't slowed the mounting angst over the Year 2000 glitch, particularly on the Internet, where the mix of technical savvy and suspicion is proving to be the perfect outlet for dire predictions. "I've never seen such hysterical projections, and I lived through the paranoia of the 1960s," says Nicholas Zvegintzov, president of Software Management Network, a Los Altos, Calif., company specializing in software maintenance...