Word: paranoias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the United States first charged the Soviets with breaking treaties banning chemical weapons, many might have believed it to be just another example of the Reagan Administration's excessive communist paranoia. But numerous other governments, scientists, and liberal officials like Solarz, have joined the chorus of denunciation, and the available evidence--at least to the layman--seems compelling that the Soviets are up to no good...
...Union. In response, the Russians might raise their own alert status, and that could cause a further escalation on our side. The news would exacerbate the existing climate of anxiety and anger and fear. Moreover, the Soviet leaders might very well conclude that the U.S., in a flight of paranoia, believed that the U.S.S.R. was involved in the attempt to assassinate the President. Why would we alert our military forces if a lone psychotic had been responsible...
...with a mythical creature in a movie, the result is bound to be a gagging spoonful of whimsy. All credit, then, to Splash for having a mermaid capable of turning her fins into shapely gams flop up on Manhattan's in salubrious shores, where a quick education in paranoia, cynicism and the perils of materialism has ever been available to out-of-towners. For from that unpromising situation emerges a romantic comedy that is as salty and bracing as a plunge in the surf. Whenever Daryl Hannah, as the sweetly shallow creature from the deep, and Tom Hanks...
Most "overnight stars" have a few skeletons in their closets: low-budget movies made when they were struggling for attention, then exhumed by some fringe distributor trying to cash in on a brand name. Mike's Murder, which stars Debra Winger as a bank teller lured into the paranoia of the cocaine underworld, is a skeleton in a super-closet: the picture was made in 1982 between Winger's two big hits, An Officer and a Gentleman and Terms of Endearment, and was perpetrated by James Bridges, the writer-director whose previous films include The China Syndrome...
...rented car and a truck on the way from the airport to the mansion, Kate, further depressed by the rainy climate and inhospitable people, decides to leave the country after only two days. Losing her cool, she abandons the car in a vacant lot and departs amidst exaggerated paranoia, fearing that the rental agency will have her apprehended before she leaves. Back in the States, in the third and final section, "Home," we return to Kate's rambling mental slide show which still lacks a story...