Word: paranoid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thing straight. We were demonstrating against the paranoid politicians in Washington, B.C., who, at the wave of a red flag or a dollar sign, put our youth as sitting ducks into an impossible situation in Viet...
There was both peril and promise in that offer. The Soviets are all but paranoid about the Chinese, with whom they share a 4,100-mile border. To the Kremlin, Haig's trip was one more proof that virtually every policy move by the new Administration is dictated by its anti-Soviet stance. The announcement of the arms sale, no matter how small, added to tensions. In Moscow, Georgi Arbatov, director of the Soviet Institute for the Study of the U.S.A. and Canada, told TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott that the Haig trip was "all part of a campaign...
More difficult to comprehend is Timerman's story of why he was abducted in the first place. He recounts crude anti-Semitic insults and the paranoid belief in a Jewish plot to seize Argentina's windswept Patagonia region for a new Israel...
...films he is not the Tonight Show Albert Brooks, putting bozo entertainers through a Cuisinart of irony; he is Albert Brooks dicing and slicing the comedy commodity named "Albert Brooks" - an earnest obsessive just this side of obnoxious. By comparison Woody Allen plays it safe: despite the misogyny and paranoid fatalism, his comic persona is essentially lovable. Brooks plays hardball, with himself as the wall. On S.N.L. he played a comedian preparing to perform heart surgery on a patient who has answered his want ad. In Real Life he is a comedian who makes a documentary film about an American...
...guilt. We make great gestures toward making the medium into some sort of genuine art, or at least some genuinely stylish entertainment--but that's about as far as it goes. It's just not a form to arouse that sort of passion. If one employs Salvador Dali's Paranoid Critical Method, one starts suspecting that television's visceral meretriciousness is what we actually adore. In a medium populated by yahoos of the most defiant sort, the rest of us cannot help feeling like minor league aristocrats. Maybe we watch to make ourselves feel better. Maybe we watch to feel...