Word: paranoid
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...hired me is in a quandary because he cannot decide when to hold the semiannual editorial staff party. Everyone tells him that the 4th of July would be perfect since almost all of the Trib's employees are Americans and since it is a Friday. But the D.E. is paranoid: he is afraid to make a decision that no one will trust. So he calls me. the lowliest peon in the building. into his office for my opinion. I suggest the 4th of July. He remains unconvinced...
...suspicious of everyone and everything," said an Algerian official. Worse, the Iranian negotiators seemed to be confused by the most elementary financial transactions. As a result, the Algerians became financial as well as political advisers to Tehran. All the while, the Algerians were trying to explain to Americans the paranoid psychology of Tehran's revolutionaries...
...decisive moment neared, there was palpable relief that the hostage story seemed close to ending. "The past 14 months were loaded with events that broke unpredictably," says Washington Correspondent Roberto Suro. "I developed an almost paranoid sense that something major could happen at any moment." More than any story in years, the hostages tugged hard at journalists' hearts and patriotism. As Suro notes: "The old rule of 'No cheering in the press box' was difficult to observe." Indeed, few staffers could conceal a rooting interest. Says Washington Correspondent Johanna McGeary: "What Carter and his people have wanted...
...lives like a director. Taxi Driver was nihilistic, but the view was Travis's; and if we suspected all along that it was Scorsese's as well, that was incidental. Raging Bull, unmediated by any narrator, reveals only the diseased, morbid horror of Scorsese's mind. It is a paranoid vision of America...
generation of Soviet leadership will inevitably be less conscious of the great Soviet sacrifices of World War II. It will be increasingly paranoid and more conscious of its power, while presiding over increasing failures within its own country. It will be threatened by centrifugal pressures in areas that are under Soviet hegemony. It may be tempted to strike out overseas to compensate for its troubles at home. On Détente. It cannot be, and never...