Word: paranoias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Davies' self-destructive persona--"Yoyo" delineates the internal discombobulation of a typical businessman. In "Destroyer," Davies rips off his own famous "All Day and All Night" guitar riff from 15 years ago and instead of mearly declaring love, the power chords represent the "Little man" always in his head, paranoia. The title song applauds humanity's affection for seeing sex and violence: "We all sit glued while the killer takes aim...hey ma, there goes a piece of the president's brain!" And the slow tunes continue Davies catalogue of kooks--"Art Lover" is a man who loves to watch...
...editorial (transcripts are on file at WRAL and the University of North Carolina) Helms expressed a recurring paranoia about the nation's journalistic Establishment: he called Walter Cronkite a "hysterical crybaby" who "has been a participant in a vast ultraliberal mechanism tirelessly dedicated to brainwashing the American public." He was on to welfare parasitism years before the Great Society: "Extreme care should be taken that public assistance is not made a mockery by those who would freeload off their fellow man." In 1965: "The civil rights movement, as Dr. [Martin Luther] King calls it, has had an uncommon number...
...Carter and a former member of the contact group: "We are in danger of being on the wrong and losing side, as we were in Viet Nam, Iran and Nicaragua." A tilt toward South Africa, he adds, is "shortsighted, naive and part of [the Administration's] ideology and paranoia toward Communism. The South Africans' hope is to turn attention away from self-determination and racial domination to an East-West arena...
...Soviet perception of the Minuteman debate, at least as expressed by official spokesmen in a series of interviews in Moscow, is a mixture of righteous indignation, countercharges and carefully reasoned assurances. "These wild scenarios by American armchair strategists breed suspicion and paranoia and serve to justify the arms race," says Georgi Arbatov, the director of the Institute for the Study of the U.S.A. and Canada and a member of the Communist Party Central Committee...
With pride, with paranoia, he twitches his head from side to side. He becomes an eagle, the odds-on favorite to win God's most majestic sound. It may be Sunday morning in Rockport village in the year 1981, but now it is also the first day of creation. When Parents' unsuspecting eagle-with a thrush stowed away on its back-lifts off majestically at the upward wave of the storyteller's hand, the audience lifts off too, out the window of the Opera House, above the sun-dappled boats lying at anchor in Rockport harbor, beyond...