Word: paranoiac
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...much of the revolution in a bathtub, writing pamphlets and soothing his sores until he was murdered by Charlotte Corday (Elyssa Jakim ’10). Performed in the insane asylum, the act’s unfolding is rich and nuanced. The cranky, nervous Marat is played by a paranoiac who at times must be detained because of his episodes; his words are twisted and debated by the cool and assured Marquis de Sade (Olivia J. Jampol ’10), who directs and occasionally intervenes in his own creation...
...listener of the Talking Heads’ “Remain in Light,” an album whose individual tracks tend to be lost, or at least less potent, outside the framework of the album proper. In this way, “Embryonic” could be the paranoiac subconscious of any one of the passengers aboard ship of fools that was “The Soft Bulletin.” It remains an open question as to whether the choice not to produce with David Friedman—known for his work in psych-rock band Mercury Rev?...
...decline of one of literature’s most enigmatic and gigantic figures.“Inherent Vice” is a typically Pynchonian take on the detective genre, starring Larry “Doc” Sportello as a sandal-wearing, beach-dwelling, pot-smoking Private Eye. The paranoiac narrative—situated historically around the 1970 Manson Family murder trial and geographically around the fictional Gordita Beach on the California coast—begins when an old flame named Shasta Fay approaches Doc with a vaguely defined mission: to protect her current boyfriend, real-estate heavyweight Mickey Wolfmann...
...were fascinated, as he was, with the unconscious. But he departed almost at once from their favorite method of arriving there--automatic writing and drawing, in which words and pictures were set instantly to paper with a minimum of conscious deliberation. As an alternative, he came up with his "paranoiac-critical" method, which was an attempt to enter a kind of delirium while keeping a part of the mind detached, alert to the imperatives of the rational world. Whatever that meant, it led him to the dazzling trompe l'oeil illusionism of Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish...
...Mind contains multiple, parallel tales of family crisis with Jake (Patrick McCaffrey), a stubborn, malicious paranoiac with a bad memory as their uniting element. As the play begins, he has badly beaten his wife, Beth (Nichole Shalhoub), and run off, thinking that he’s killed her. However, a doleful Beth has survived and is recuperating with the help of her brother, Mike (Tor Hillhouse). Also in the mix are Jake’s clearheaded siblings (Jodi Dick and Kaolin Bass) and a trio of daffy parents (Francesca Carlin, Tug Coker, and Laura Nordin...