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Though he had been drinking heavily and taking drugs for years, in the '70s he became an addict. "Some of the folks alongside me went Establishment or dropped dead. I was more fortunate. I went insane. I became paranoid and schizophrenic. I heard voices and was convinced that friends were being murdered in the next room. Since I was isolated, living in Taos, no one told me any different." In Mexico to make a movie in 1983, he panicked, tore off his clothes and, after walking naked through the countryside, was arrested and sent back to the U.S. "Dennis tapped...
...Moscow, thumbing its nose at world opinion, moved in with tanks and paratroopers. In the other cases, there was either an act or an accusation of spying. The Soviets are preoccupied with espionage in a way that is difficult for Americans to understand. As custodians of a closed and paranoid political system, they are obsessed with protecting their own secrets and finding out those of their enemies...
...Austrian trench mortar punctured Hemingway with 200-odd pieces of shrapnel. The wounds validated his manhood, which they had very nearly destroyed. The second explosion came 25 years ago this summer. Early one morning in Ketchum, Idaho, Hemingway (suffering from diabetes, nephritis, alcoholism, severe depression, & hepatitis, hypertension, impotence and paranoid delusions, his memory all but ruined by electroshock treatments) slid two shells into his double-barreled Boss shotgun. Mens morbida in corpore morbido. There was a gruesome ecology in the fact that the last creature Hemingway brought down was himself...
Watch out, America, full moon's coming. That's when a wily psychopath -- a werewolf of modern paranoid fantasies -- turns some idyllic suburban home into a slaughterhouse. And when anyone wanders too close, the psycho (Tom Noonan) festers into action. A tabloid journalist (Stephen Lang) ends up flambeed in a runaway wheelchair. A photo-lab technician (Joan Allen), whose blindness has not inhibited her taste for sexual adventure, invites the psycho home and is soon in mortal peril. His only nemesis is Will Graham (William L. Petersen), an ex-FBI agent who uses a kind of Method forensics to identify...
...ought to prosecute people whose motives for invading other nations are selfish or paranoid in the extreme--like the Surinam invasion party, which hoped to abscond with the contents of the national bank, or the neurotic commander in Doctor Strangelove who is convinced he is surrounded by Communist plots...