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...role of Dith Pran went to Dr. Haing S. Ngor, a Cambodian refugee whose own exploits mirrored those of Dith Pran's. Perhaps his lack of thespian training accounts for the excessive Oriental inscrutability his brings to his part. But then living in the paranoid hell of Cambodia made silence and inconspicuousness golden virtues. In fact, Ngor's most effective scenes occur when he doesn't speak at all. After Pran is exiled to a rural concentration camp, he must struggle to appear nothing more than a simple peasant. His Khmer Rouge, captors, constantly suspicious, address him in French...
...Heywood Floyd, head of the American team, displaying his usual macho character and coolness in all situations. But the best acting in the movie definitely comes from John Lithgow '70, who portrays Walter Curnow, an engineer who is totally out of his element in a spacesuit. Playing the paranoid role, Lithgow at one point fumbles hilariously with the oxygen mixture controls on his spacesuit and floats helplessly in space hiccuping uncontrollably...
...NEXT NIGHT on ABC "World News Tonight" a three minute piece on Nicaragua described the "paranoid" fear of Nicaraguans concerning an imminent U.S. invasion in addition to the tremendous Nicaraguan arms buildup. All of one sentence was devoted to mentioning that there is a war going on in that country, and that one sentence neglected to mention that it is almost entirely financed by the United States...
Starting with little knowledge about computers, Stelling supervised the conception, design and construction of all exhibits. "When I took AS11 [Applied Sciences 11. "Introduction to Computing" I at Harvard, I was totally paranoid about computers," she says, "One of the reasons I got involved was to help people overcome their fears about computers. They're just tools," she adds...
...dealing with a paranoid fantasy called Aquitaine, and it's controlled by proven, committed, highly intelligent and resourceful men, who it they achieve what they've set out to do will appear as the voices of strength and reason in a world gone mad. They'll control that world--our world--because all other options will pale beside their stability...