Word: paranoias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mitterand: Shhhhhhh! Will you keep it down. If your paranoia about that leaked to the public, they would all realize how much of a threat the strike really is. Just remember the plan. Let us distract attention from the coal, diamond and gold miners with out economic sanctions. You may not have to worry too much anyway. Cyril Ramaphosa [general secretary of South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers] says only 240,000 belong to the union, and your Chamber of Mines reports that figure at only 83,000. It may not go off too well...
...considerable political sophistication, in that the hijacking was "calculated and perfectly planned" to interfere with U.S. policy and U.S.-Israeli relations, seems questionable. His pronouncement that "the Shiites are simply out to destroy those nations [that prize freedom] in any way possible for their own fanatical reasons" smacks of paranoia. Given the political turmoil, economic collapse and physical hardship the Shiites have withstood in the recent past, the terrorist actions of the hijackers more likely reflect extreme desperation and fear, instead of the well thought out political maneuvering Mr. Kahn attributes to them. Finally, Mr. Kahn's call...
...Education William Bennett complained that the latest rulings will make it "vastly more difficult to provide education service to some of America's neediest schoolchildren." Bennett's view echoed the lament of dissenting Chief Justice Warren Burger, who wrote in the New York case that "it borders on paranoia to perceive the Archbishop of Canterbury or the Bishop of Rome lurking behind programs that are just as vital to the nation's schoolchildren as textbooks...
Americans alternate between hospitality and paranoia about the newcomers, between a promiscuous inclusiveness and a nativist recoil. It was different, they say, when the whole continent lay before us and needed building. The job is done. How many more can we take now? How long before all those foreigners, who have not the Renaissance and the Enlightenment in their hereditary code, who have not democracy and its disciplines (debate, voting), begin to tear out the Republic's circuit boards and leave them rotting in the yard? How long before the Third World overwhelms the First World...
...video; it tries both to engage one's sense of one's body through melodramatic or newsy postures and "heroic" figuration, and to achieve the enigmatic distance of minimal art. Sometimes, in attempting this odd synthesis, it gets clunky and overworked, but it also benefits from its own unappeasable paranoia. The size of Longo's voyeuristic images reflects the scale of his essential subject: the American consciousness industry, and the way it grouts every cranny in public life...