Word: paranoiacally
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Because of this situation, Boston has long been a paranoiac sports town with a moody, individualistic idol representative of its frustration. The complex extends not only to the Yanks, but to the New York sportswriters, who are envisioned as engaging in a plot to destroy the few postseason consolations which fans in other cities may possess...
...Khrushchev straight in the eye in a way that might well give Khrushchev pause about the forces he has let loose in the party. Khrushchev's "secret" speech (TIME, March 26 et seq.), wrote Fast, "is a strange and awful document ... It itemizes a record of barbarism and paranoiac blood lust that will be a lasting and shameful memory to civilized man . . . Mr. Khrushchev led men of good will to understand that the document itself would be a warning of the monstrous dangers inherent in secret and dictatorial government. I for one looked hopefully but vainly ... for a pledge...
With bedlam in his mind and a quaint profusion of fresh cauliflower in his Rolls-Royce limousine, Spanish-born Surrealist Painter Salvador Dali arrived at Paris' Sorbonne University to unburden himself of some gibberish. His subject: "Phenomenological Aspects of the Critical Paranoiac Method." Some 2,000 ecstatic listeners were soon sharing Salvador's Dalirium. Planting his elbows on a lecture table strewn with bread crumbs, Dali blandly explained: "All emotion comes to me through the elbow." Then he announced his latest finding in critical paranoia. The gamy meat of it: "Everything departs from the rhinoceros horn! Everything departs...
...Whining Paranoiac. For its vast middle-brow audience, TV served up a go-minute helping of Herman Wouk's Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, with most of the same cast that has carried the show to big-money grosses on Broadway and on tour across the nation. Lloyd Nolan re-created his memorable Captain Queeg, depicting the collapse of a personality, in one shattering crossexamination, from a man-to-man blaster to a whining paranoiac. Captain Queeg's character is complex yet dramatically clear, but most of the other characters in Caine Mutiny must operate as intellectual phobias...
Wife: "Please, I can't go on like this . . . He called me a parasite and a paranoiac parasite and everything. Just because he's working hard...