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...tells much of the story. Jackson wrote and produced the album in New York, following a tradition of British fascination with the city shared by the likes of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. The effect of this extended stop in New York's is evident in vivid songs about paranoid street walkers, sexual deviants and smiling snipers...
This standard-size carrier bristles with surveillance devices, many of which are disguised as everyday items that can make paranoid executives feel as invulnerable as a Fort Knox guard. A cigarette pack in the case lights up to warn that a tape recorder is present. An ordinary pen illuminates when a "bug" is located near by. A supersensitive sniffer detects hidden bombs...
...babies during birth. "I wanted to take a knife and cut the skin right off me," she says. "I was just so scared about my baby." A healthy girl was born, and for six months Susan was "hysterical" about protecting the youngster, now 3½. "She is probably the most paranoid kid on the block," says Susan, because of elaborate warnings and precautions. Susan douses the house with quarts of Lysol when friends come over, and admits to "enormous" sexual problems with her husband, who caught herpes from...
Many civilian scientists find the trend disturbing. Says one: "Some of my colleagues are absolutely paranoid about the Pentagon." These concerns increased last April when J.P.L.'s esteemed civilian director, Geologist Bruce Murray, 50, announced he was stepping down after six years to return to teaching, writing and research. Said he: "I believe in a personal and an institutional renewal...
...post modern (or wherever we technically find ourselves), seem somehow . . .inadequate. Our literature paces like an un-happy animal in a small cage. On the whole, we learn no more about the meaning of things from our "creative" writers than a child learns about wildlife by watching the disconsolate, paranoid polar bear in the Central Park Zoo. The brute scowls and flips a beer keg around his stagnant pool and dreams of killing someone: a perfect model of the literary life...