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Bukovsky concludes that it is the regime that is demented: "It doesn't require conscious citizens demanding legality, it requires slaves ... It doesn't require partners, it requires satellites. Like a paranoiac, obsessed by a fantastic idea, it cannot and will not recognize reality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Man Who Could Only Say Nyet | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

...Only a paranoiac or a bigot could find this song offensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 20, 1978 | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

...Frost probed Nixon's motives in striking out at his critics, the former President anticipated the questions. "Am I paranoiac about hating people and trying to do them in?" he asked. "The answer is: At times, yes. I get angry at people ... but an individual must never let hatred rule him." His bitterness showed when he described Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the secret Pentagon papers, as "the punk." It also showed toward the Kennedys as he related how Jack and Jackie had never once invited him and Pat to the White House for a meal, even though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEQUELS: Not Even Earplugs Could Help | 5/30/1977 | See Source »

...PRESIDENT'S MEN. Redford-Hoffman as Woodward-Bernstein break the Watergate story in Alan J. Pakula's superbly atmospheric, intelligently controlled film that manages at once to be raffish, slightly paranoiac and politically acute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Year's Best | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

...unfortunate that this production draws you in for the sights and stumbles over the ideas. Oskar Panizza's view of the world turned him into a paranoiac who sought safety and death in an Austrian asylum. He didn't notice when World War II broke out, but he knew the essential facts of it, anyway...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Lovesick | 5/7/1976 | See Source »

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