Word: paranoias
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...verdict in the Goetz case does present an example of how subtle racism--the kind that is captured in statistical surveys--can play itself out in a tangible way. When courts consider the racially-linked paranoia of a crime victim, race becomes an issue. When courts indulge this paranoia, the verdict has aspects of race...
...government responded to Diaz's charges by issuing a statement that he was "suffering from a serious state of paranoia." While Noriega made no move to arrest his former colleague, President Eric Arturo Delvalle blamed the colonel and unidentified "external forces" for the rioting. Officials in Panama City have recently charged that U.S. opponents of the 1979 Panama Canal treaties are trying to undermine the government...
...Nixon's paranoia about the press was world class, as the released memo shows. But not a one of the men who sat in the Oval Office in recent years was without such anger. John Kennedy thought TIME got too personal and ordered the entire Executive Branch not to speak to anyone from the magazine. That ban collapsed within eight hours: Attorney General Robert Kennedy took my call and talked my ear off. When he was President, Lyndon Johnson stalked me around a table roaring, "You're nothing but a whore for the Republican Party!" I'm sorry I could...
...Borrowing a page from Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead," the author tries to retell Salinger's Catcher in the Rye from a different standpoint. Stradlater explains that the reason Holden thinks everybody was a phony was because he was addicted to crack and suffered from severe paranoia...
...blood-smeared Aias has the widest emotional range of all the characters, evoking bloodlust, paranoia, self-pity, and a doomed dignity. Vilmure ably displays this range, but he too falls prey to the disease that strikes most of the players: in moments of high drama, he affects a British accent. My friend the purist suggests that such affectation is intended to simulate the changes in intonation that Greek actors would have made at appropriate moments, but my guess is that Aias thinks it is on Masterpiece Theater...