Word: paranoiac
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Osborn draws a fat club member with the tight emptiness of a blown-up sheep bladder, a paranoiac as a jungle of harsh lines straining inside a box. And his captions have the impact of an uppercut. A black Spanish bull glowers from one page with this thought for the matador: "Now the bull is looking at you with intent to kill and all that is required of you is to go in over the horns...
...rest of the book is a close-up of a paranoiac in a jungle clearing, screaming revenge on her whole life, while the tropics close in like an ant horde and nibble her to death with minor misfortunes. Her children struggle to break free of the inner jungle of Ma's spirit, only to find themselves in the outer jungle of a degenerate colonial society...
...orderly process of thought capable of producing wise decision, nor of envisaging constructive and adequate planning for this nation's life, liberty and happiness. Alger Hiss is an egghead, Whittaker Chambers is an egghead, with a latent streak of common sense. There are all kinds of eggheads-neurotic, paranoiac, schizophrenic. There are also harmless and normal eggheads, including a few useful ones...
...large, enthusiastic audiences, observed a ticket-taker, are "mostly men, ten, to one. maybe. And I guess there's a few old ladies who come to get shocked." What the audience sees is a turgid little melodrama about a blonde, paranoiac babysitter. Dripping with frilly negligee, she lures Airline Pilot Richard Widmark to her charge's apartment. When interruptions prevent her making love to him, she tries to murder the freckle-faced moppet she is supposed to be taking care...
...meeting . . . was memorable." Dali spent most of the session on his knees, he says, "not pleading against expulsion but exhorting [them] to understand that my obsession with Hitler was strictly paranoiac and apolitical...