Word: paranoias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HENRY ROSOVSKY, Taussig Research Professor of Economics, has become dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the end of a transition period. Under the tight leadership of John T. Dunlop, the Faculty has moved from a state of paranoia in the aftermath of two years of strikes to a state of limbo. The Faculty and the University -- now much different from the one Dunlop took over--will apparently move to reestablish an equilibrium similar to the one lost...
Central Issue. The initial European reaction was generally predictable. Officials of Britain's Tory government, who share many of the Nixon-Kissinger attitudes about Europe's narrow "regional personality," were privately enthusiastic. The French were decidedly negative. Reflecting the somewhat automatic paranoia of its Gaullist audience, the Paris daily La Nation suggested that Kissinger had launched not a debate but "a diplomatic offensive which in appearance only is an "offensive de charme.' " West Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung raised what may prove to be the central issue. The U.S. had posed all the important questions...
...improvisational style of the filming. Bulle Ogier, best known for her performance in La Salamandre, sensitively depicts Claire as a woman whose self-destructiveness lurks under a surface of softness. Little signs -- as when she teases her husband's friends -- hint at the tension developing underneath. In her increasing paranoia she starts catching random fragments of conversation and music on a tape recorder...
Silence Has No Wings, a sensitive and subtle Japanese film directed by Kazuo Kuroki, is a surrealist portrait of post-war Japan. Paranoia dominates the world it depicts, caused by the rise of the new middle class. But the film itself is quiet and controlled...
...message movies tune their politics to an ad man's pitch. They mainline the message "America is all crap" and project an American self-hatred not only on the present but on the past (Tell Them Willie Boy is Here). They pat you on the back for paranoia with pictures of a world pitted against you. And by leaving you with the feeling that the only thing left to do is get stoned and die, they rationalize the failure to do anything about the ugliness they project...