Word: paranoid
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...wish they had Russian goods to sell. But in the most poignant scene they feel compelled to telephone someone, anyone, back home, just to ask how things are. After realizing that everyone they can think of has emigrated, gone to prison, committed suicide, become a collaborator or retreated into paranoid fear of the state police, the wife sadly dials the number for the correct time -- in Warsaw...
DAVIES' UNSUBTLE attack on contemporary cultural and political degeneracy focuses around our obsession with media. He's better at portraying his paranoid vision of its future than at moralizing about it, but you get the point. Channel 147's carefully targeted druggie DJ-snooker commentators, who are aimed both to reflect and numb the population, are perfect examples of Davies's vision...
...WOULD be paranoid to blame it all on some enormous plot, masterminded by the Master of Amnesia himself--but let's not name names, the President has been getting enough abuse lately. But the grim fact of the matter is that blame for the short attention span of the American public must be laid on the baby boomers...
THIS IS not necessarily a bad thing. If it is publicized that the average campaign chest is getting larger and larger, paranoid legislators will work even harder to keep the cash flowing in, and, overworked and exhausted, all the old legislators will die. Only one class of people rich enough to levy the funds necessary to run will be left: lottery winners. Thus elections will be completely democritized, since eligibility to public office will be decided by colored ping-pong balls in an air machine...
...would always play Beserk," says Kate A. Tewes '85, who in her undergraduate years played in the Union or at Elsie's for up to 15 hours a week. "It's a god-like game, where a paranoid man is trying to go through rooms and is killing people. Then an 'Auto' comes on the screen, and he's just this smiley face whose only goal in life is to destroy you. It's a really paranoid and alienating game, and I thought it was funny. It appealed to my sense of cynicism. And I've always despised smiley faces...