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Urban, leftist, academic Berkeley, California, and remote northern Idaho don't share a lot. But both places have become havens for Americans who have dropped out of the workaday culture, who have a paranoid streak, and who view the very concept of government as oppressive...
...They are paranoid in the way they look at the world. They see America as the Great Satan that does everything wrong, and yet it is all-powerful, and therefore all American acts must be deliberate; they can't be the result of accident or misunderstanding, or simply stupid policy...
...uses her as the supporting beam of his life in the village. Her selfless devotion to the cause of the diseased in the slum lures Max into the realm of the Calcuttan poor. He treats the lepers in the adjacent village, much to the horror of the paranoid denizens of his own village. The storyline takes twist after twist, placing a story within a story. The internal rivalry between the destitute lepers and the village of rickshaw-puller tenants is juxtaposed against the larger framework of animosity between the poor villagers and the landlord's draconian son, Ashok. He terrorizes...
...THURSDAY NIGHT, everyone on this campus should think about their personal safety. Walk outside in the dark. Think about people lingering in alleyways. Be paranoid...
...going to start going from there -- I never dreamed we'd get both of them." He also got Burt Reynolds, Jack Lemmon, Rod Steiger, Cher and a horde of other six- and seven-figure actors to play themselves for a few hundred dollars apiece. "None of them were paranoid," Altman says. "None of them came wanting to read the script, none of them...