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...QUIET, DARKENED HOSPITAL ROOM, a 25-year-old man with paranoid schizophrenia lies on a table, his eyes closed, listening to the "voice" that has plagued him for more than two years. The voice is relentless, speaking once every 10 seconds or so. "Don't act stupid," it says in a demeaning tone. "Dirty rotten bastard." Each time the man hears the voice, he clicks a button. Scientists, meanwhile, are monitoring his brain activity. Using a special imaging technique called PET scanning, they take series of pictures every 10 minutes. Later, by matching the timing of the button clicks with...
...past emerged--a story that characterized her as a paranoid orphan who had also killed her sister...
Giving the BGLSA a center would be the first step on the way to a ridiculously balkanized campus, one with houses for every race, ethnicity and sexual orientation. Perhaps you think that this scenario of a campus divided is extreme, paranoid and ridiculous. But it is no less so than the BGLSA demand for a student center...
...Insomniac, a short, sharp album of pop punk songs about turning tricks, picking scabs and hating one's parents, which is expected to be one of the biggest-selling CDs of the year. Two other new punk albums,...And Out Come the Wolves by the Berkeley band Rancid, and Paranoid & Sunburnt, from the British group Skunk Anansie, are already in stores. The Seattle punk band Hole--whose leader, Courtney Love, is one of the best lyricists in rock (and the widow of Kurt Cobain of Nirvana)--has just come out with a CD titled Ask for It, featuring live material...
...sheer consistency, even Bergman's themes have Doppelgangers. The paranoid artist could be Bergman himself or it could be any artist. Johan might be skirting high society out of fear of sexual humiliation or from feelings of freakishness. His mania might derive more from sexual dissatisfaction with the rather homely Alma than from any frustration with the way his neighbors' treat him. Johan obviously suffers his insanity so we feel compassion for him, but his moods make him too unpleasant to be truly sympathetic...