Word: paranoiacs
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There are, in her performance, at least half a dozen Debbies: a falsely easy-mannered hipster, a stern elementary school disciplinarian, a sexual paranoiac (she is convinced the school janitor is a rapist), a multiprejudiced xenophobe, a cruelly playful child and, finally, a vulnerable woman. Keaton can expose all these creatures in a single whirling moment. She cannot save the show, but she has definitely announced her ability to stand independent of Allen as a delightful comic force to be reckoned with...
...October 31 Crimson article about the Harvard-Radcliffe Gay Students Association (HRGSA), the only HRGSA member who discussed the politics of gay liberation dismissed as 'paranoiac' those who link gay struggles with other movements for social change. As supporters of the gay liberation movement, we strongly disagree...
...terrorist underground, whose reckless attempt to seize power had led to the island's division. They were not disappointed. "This is an ill-omened day and a mournful anniversary," said Makarios in his nasal twang. "When on the morning of that day the putschists struck and in their paranoiac mania brought down the presidential palace, they at the same time opened the gates and let in Turkey, which had awaited the opportunity...
Sleeper still has Allen deactivating the fuses of an audience's most fiendishly paranoiac fantasies. But there's much more of the awareness that the world's crazy, not him. His savvy comes from the city rat's instinct for survival. He knows that the witty things he says are idiotic and absurd, but he also knows that they are a defense mechanism. In 2173 he can roll sophisticated eyes at the lifestyle of the futuristic zombies that surround him, no matter how much they intimidate him. He's more cynical than they are, which becomes a heroic trait...
...alone to lick the froth off the attractions of a tourist's Russia and to work out the personal problems he has tried to leave behind in America. "Like Isaac Babel, 'I am master of the genre of silence,'" the Russian sighs, but he is confronted only with the paranoiac hedging of the tourist, and the knowledge that he will never be able to impart his talent and ideas to the public of a country he perversely defends...