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Where the N.R.A. has always revealed its nature as a paranoid lobby, a political anachronism, is in its rigid ideological belief that any restriction on the private ownership of any kind of hand-held gun leads inexorably to total abolition of all gun ownership -- that, if today the U.S. Government takes the Kalashnikov from the hands of the maniac on the school playground, it will be coming for my Winchester pump tomorrow. There is no evidence for this absurd belief, but it remains an article of faith. And it does so because the faith is bad faith: the stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The N.R.A. in A Hunter's Sights | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

Lawrence's only "real life" friend is Joanna. And despite her paranoid tendencies, Joanna is a swell friend. She tells Lawrence about her daily adventures outside. In return, he lets her play with his toy ferris wheel...

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: Housing Problems | 3/10/1989 | See Source »

...APPOINTMENTS OF DENNIS JENNINGS (HBO, starting March 6, 10 p.m. EST). Deadpan comic Steven Wright plays a paranoid writer trying to sort out his life in this short, also an Oscar nominee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Mar. 6, 1989 | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

Most of the Bahaman people are so friendly that you will become incredibly paranoid for the first few hours you are there. "No one is this nice to strangers," you'll think. "They must want something from...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Imagine the Perfect Getaway Place | 2/18/1989 | See Source »

...some, Johnson's distaste for academics may seem perfectly rational, but Goodwin believes Johnson's self-control was disintegrating. "I am not Lyndon Johnson's psychiatrist," Goodwin warns, but he does offer his psychiatric analysis of the president and concludes he had an obsessive paranoid personality. It is on this point that Goodwin's critics take issue with...

Author: By Matthew Pinsker, | Title: Richard Goodwin: Monday Morning Psychoanalyst | 10/29/1988 | See Source »

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