Word: paranoid
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...case you don't get th' point about th' "disease," th' mother acts real paranoid about germs, n' a lamb gets maggots. Also, there's an impending plague of another sort: what th' son calls a "zombie invasion," zombies bein' all th' slick nobodies who're buyin' up land in th' West n' turnin' it into housin' developments n' shoppin' malls...
...goes, through a list of correspondents that includes most of the types who dwell on the literary life's ragged edges. The unpublished writer who aggressively demands that Bradbury read her last seven novels (enclosed) is turned aside with a compliment ("Be reassured, a masochistic and paranoid temperament is a well-known sign of a great writer") and a practical suggestion ("May I recommend a pseudonym -- something like John le Carre"). The young academic confronting his first job interview is reminded that he must dress both down (there is always a raging egalitarian on the committee who resents Oxbridge college...
Almost alone among boxers, Tyson has no entourage. It seems to be the only cliche he has avoided. He does his predawn roadwork by himself on the boardwalk, grateful for the solitude. "I don't have any friends. I get paranoid around a lot of people. I can't relax." Besides Rooney and Cutman Matt Baranski, only Steve Lott is admitted to the inner sanctum. "I'm the spit-bucket man," Lott says with shining eyes. "I would give my life for that." He was a handball buddy of Jimmy Jacobs', an honored player who died at 58 last March...
...troubling, however, that in the process of laying bare the Big Bad City, Wolfe's paranoid style becomes dominant. For anyone who wants to expose society's inner workings, Wolfe can serve as model--a negative one, that is. The hip cynical writer is a channel one should avoid...
...conservatives, who fear that Reagan has become senile in his old age and is no match for the skillful Gorbachev. The new reforms, they argue, mask Gorbachev's plan to revive the stagnant Soviet economy and rival our technological capability. What they fail to realize is that a paranoid Soviet Union presents a greater threat to world peace than one that openly recognizes its past atrocities and encourages the expression of different views. An economically weak military superpower would be more likely to play off its area of strength; so America should welcome relations on an economic level...