Word: paranoias
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...extra space in the back so tanning beds seemed like a good idea,i explains the storeowner. This curious combination of services has been unwrinkling clothes and wrinkling skin since 1993. She remarks that although her tanning business has waned in the past three years due to increasing paranoia over melanoma, there are still some regulars...
...before him, the phantom foe clearly craved attention. He got it in the shape of a front-page media frenzy, a full-scale FBI investigation and a hastily convened White House conference on Web hacking. And yet he stubbornly refused to show up at his own party, prompting PC paranoia and all manner of conspiracy theories...
...When the '70s pass before my eyes, I feel myself sink again into the murk, sucked back into the violence and stupidity, the sleaze and failure, the narcissism and paranoia. It all comes back: riots at the gas pumps, terrorists on every flight, double-digit inflation, the last ignominious helicopters out of Saigon, the explosion of crime, the lousy cars from Detroit, Nixon's sweating upper lip as he says good-bye, the Club of Rome's gaudy apocalypse, the massive dumbing down of everything, and the perfect denouement - the Ayatollah and the hostage crisis...
...writer alone is almost as frightening a sight as a writer among others, especially at a book party. Paranoia fills the bloodstream. He grows certain that everyone is plotting against him, whereas no one is thinking about him at all. Unable to decide which is more humiliating, he goes for his verbal...