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...bring to roles like this, not to mention his wary misogyny. Yet Scheider can play a loony tune or two (see All That Jazz) if anyone bothers to ask him. Streep fares better. She is either the homicidal maniac the police suspect she is or a woman driven to paranoid frenzy by those suspicions. Either way, she is an actress with a proven ability to suggest neurotic fires burning beneath a cool surface and the knack for enlisting a sympathy we know may be misplaced...
...federal agents, Mulcahy phoned Martinez. "I have to be careful," Martinez recalls his saying, "because [Wilson] will probably have someone looking for me." Mulcahy's life suddenly soured. Depressed and drinking again, he talked with friends about suicide. Martinez got another call last month from Mulcahy: "He seemed paranoid...
Other aspects of the Winig case though, are more troubling, and less easily written off as endemic to the system Reaction of UHS officials to the inquiry has ranged from the skeptical to the frankly paranoid with response to the women's committee sometimes released to the press first, and sometimes...
Psychologists and psychiatrists agree on only a few points, and even these are highly speculative. First, the murderer is likely to be a loner, isolated and unnoticed, with few if any friends. He is probably low in selfesteem, paranoid and hypersensitive, taking offense at real or imagined slights from those around...
Unlike the textbook-case mass murderer, who is often a paranoid schizophrenic, the Tylenol killer is apparently not disabled by delusions or incapacitated by hallucinations. Indeed, the killer's ability to handle cyanide and put it into small capsules indicates that he is meticulous, well organized and scientifically acute. Says Dr. Shervert Frazier, chief psychiatrist at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass.: "He knows how to carry out actions in a goal-oriented, purposeful...