Word: paranoid
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Meanwhile, things are deteriorating rapidly in General Ripper's paranoid world. The president has sent an Army squadron to reconnect Ripper's phone lines to the War Room. The Air Force soldiers use a huge bill-board cheerfully proclaiming, "Peace is our Profession" as a shield to return the Army's fire. "Strangelove" is a minefield of such details...
...very clannish." The hypervigilance that keeps them alive on the street is hard to shed once they're home."It's as if you become a cop 24 hours a day," says the ex-husband of a New Mexico cop. "That's the way you treat everyone -- commanding, suspicious, paranoid. She'd gone into the cop role so much that she regarded any challenge to her authority as an attack...
...several questions in my mind after finishing this short letter. First, who was this woman? Probably some crazy fundamentalist, a paranoid and overly religious Filipino woman who knew nothing of exalted educational institutions like Harvard...
...editorial that I had to the strange letter from my mother's friend. But if you haven't been filled with the liberal platitudes, if you're still capable of thinking for yourself at the end of your Harvard experience, you will understand that I wasn't a crazy, paranoid fundamentalist...
...Revolution), narrated by former CBS and CNN correspondent Daniel Schorr and airing next week on the Discovery Channel, is a refresher course that shouldn't be missed. Lucid and laconic, unsparing but never sanctimonious, it retells the Watergate story in patient, no-nonsense detail. Here, once again, is the paranoid Nixon White House of the early '70s, so obsessed with political foes that it had a psychiatrist's office burglarized to get dirt on Daniel Ellsberg (who had released the Pentagon papers) and ordered the fateful break-in at the offices of the Democratic National Committee...