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...guilt. We make great gestures toward making the medium into some sort of genuine art, or at least some genuinely stylish entertainment--but that's about as far as it goes. It's just not a form to arouse that sort of passion. If one employs Salvador Dali's Paranoid Critical Method, one starts suspecting that television's visceral meretriciousness is what we actually adore. In a medium populated by yahoos of the most defiant sort, the rest of us cannot help feeling like minor league aristocrats. Maybe we watch to make ourselves feel better. Maybe we watch to feel...
...story "The Networks Get Religion" [April 6], Richard Corliss calls Eleazar Ben Yair of Masada an "honorable" Jim Jones. The bravery of the Jews who chose death over capture at Masada can never be compared with the paranoid fear of the "damned" at Guyana. People look to Masada for inspiration. Can Mr. Corliss say the same about the carnage that took place at Guyana...
...together, and after one botched attempt, they succeed in murdering him in a staged car accident. This gets them in trouble with the law, but with the aid of a serpentine lawyer, they manage to get off. Cain wrote his novel in the mucous-ridden voice of the truly paranoid chain-smoker, and his hard-boiled story was really a then-shocking morality play where morality loses all together. Everyone turns on everyone else; Cora turns on Chambers in court, Chambers cheats on Cora, and eventually Fate turns on both of them...
...letter addressed to the GSA. Hilary A. Kinal, president of the HROC, called the GSA's reaction to the poster "over-sensitive, anti-social, and paranoid" and suggested that members "move to Communist Cuba, where homosexuals are put in jail, so that you could have a real enemy to fight...
...will hurt the Russian people, not their leaders, and though they may be necessary they are ironic in the extreme. And the proposals to end diplomatic relations with Russia, or to cease arms negotiations, are the most foolhardy of all. They will only drive each side further into its paranoid shell...