Word: paranoias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...went like three-minute rounds: ex-wives, bad bets and old friends drained it away. The IRS demanded $1.2 million in back taxes and penalties from him, and he suffered the humiliation of professional wrestling to help pay his debts. Following several stays in hospitals for drug abuse and paranoia, he became an "official greeter" at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas...
Finally, the Skocpol case, sex discrimination charges aside, points out once again Harvard's paranoia about people who do not espouse the company line. Even if sex bias were not an issue in Skocpol's case, bias against her radical political views and her qualitative/comparative approach to Sociology would be. Discrimination against political and academic views within the university is as pervasive a problem as sex bias. For that reason, the Faculty should establish a grievance process that encompasses all forms of discrimination. It also needs--as the Skocpol case makes eminently clear--a procedure to allow junior professors...
...audience without ever cheating. The screenplay takes Madison's point of view, the camera takes the alligator's, and for most of the film they fight each other to a crafty standoff. Aided by Teague's expert direction, Sayles has created a reptilian specter for urban paranoia-alligator as allegory. The beast may not be plausible, but the fear it engenders is. And if the movie doesn't by itself justify claims for Sayles as Hollywood's Renaissance man, it at least suggests that he can help bring genre movies to an Age of Restoration...
...Stalin's victims, none would seem so obscure as the Soviet writers who were rounded up and murdered on the night of Aug. 12, 1952. It was the Premier's last act of anti-Semitic paranoia, and he made certain that if his victims were barely known in life, they would be totally obliterated in death. It was not enough that the victims were to vanish from society, they were also to disappear from history...
...book continually quotes and attributes in mid-sentence). Examples of the Cross eye: a sophisticated senior's statement to a mystified outsider. "Oh, nobody uses money at the Coop": or an accurate assessment of Lamont (squeaky floors) vs. Hilles (empty except during reading period) libraries: or the Independent's paranoia about The Crimson: or the fact that no one shovels snow off Cambridge sidewalks. All of these add up to a remarkably persuasive and amusing portrait of life in these environs...