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...biggest trouble, however, is that the U.S. is obliged to beam conflicting messages to different audiences: Saddam, America's allies and its own public. Saddam, in Washington's analysis, is a paranoid thug to whom force is everything. To him the message can only be that he must pull out of Kuwait because the only alternative is the destruction of his power and perhaps his life. But the allies are reluctant to see the Middle East go up in flames, and so are the Americans whose sons, husbands and brothers -- or daughters, wives and sisters -- might be killed. The message...
Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) is on a permanent bad-drug trip. This is conveyed in the hallucinatory manner of terrible 1960s movies. It turns out that the drug was administered to him, without his consent, by the government. The passages where this information is vouchsafed remind us of '70s paranoid thrillers. Since the drug was given to him in Vietnam (it was supposed to make everyone in his Army unit more aggressive), we are reminded of the '80s effort to come to terms with the war. And since at one point he is afforded a promising glimpse of the afterlife...
...evade the burdens of history. First, there was the isolationism of the '20s and '30s. Then, during the cold war, the American left counseled abdication, denying either that the cold war existed or that it was anything more than a cozy arrangement to keep the Pentagon and the paranoid right happy...
Important to the Vermont approach is the belief that patients themselves must be involved in deciding about treatment. It is a far cry from the old ways. "I was locked away, and I was forcibly drugged," remembers William Montague, 36, who has been diagnosed as paranoid and schizophrenic. "I started getting my life together through living and working in the community and making decisions on my own, good and bad." Today Montague has his life together enough to work in a program that helps the homeless in Burlington...
...been the unlucky fate of "High and Low" to attract more than the usual dose of the New York art world's free-floating anxiety. Art-world anxiety is not like real-world anxiety: it is even more paranoid. What the art world frets about is how Varnedoe, whose appointment as director of painting and sculpture at MOMA has made him America's most powerful museum figure in the modern and contemporary field, will represent all its factional interests. Hence his every action is scrutinized and picked to bits, as Etruscan haruspices once examined sacrificial livers for a sign...