Word: paranoiacal
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...fiscal perspective, the billions of dollars the Central Intelligence Agency absorbs every year could certainly go to better ends. Even left with only the military intelligence branch, the U.S. would still be able to out-spy any foreign powers. But the Republican Congress, with its usual does of paranoiac xenophobia, has not considered cuts to the Central Intelligence Agency as seriously as the Democrats had only a year ago. Hopefully, the Republicans will not engage in the deleterious escalation that the Russians have stealthily begun...
...artist began with his peculiar experiences of the natural world, such as the contorted rocks at Cape Creus, near his boyhood home, sculpted into fantastically ambiguous shapes by tide and weather; like faces seen in the fire, these were the foundation stones of what Dali called his "paranoiac-critical method" of seeking dream images. Dali's art may not tap far into his unconscious, but it reveals a great deal about what he imagined his unconscious...
...evidence, to the conspiracy theorists at least, leads to a disturbing conclusion that Nixon, ever the paranoiac, engineered his own alleged demise...
...this sounds like a torturous path, it is because any policy toward the paranoiac convulsions in former Yugoslavia is bound to contain contradictions and weaknesses. In insisting on protecting their own troops in Sarajevo at all costs, Britain and France have turned these peacekeeping forces into hostages easily manipulated by the Serbs. All the humanitarian aid seems occasionally absurd when the people for whom it is destined are routinely shelled, ethnically cleansed or raped...
...monologues of the unemployed tiresalesman Sam Byck, his tape-recorded messages to Leonard ("Lenny") Bernstein and Richard ("Dick") Nixon, are marvelously witty and display a perfect understanding of the mind of the paranoiac...