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Apted's actors love the English language as much as the playwright does. The spare, precise dialogue practically detonates from their lips. Bates, playing the paranoid husband, is the quintessential Pinter menace: if looks could kill, the rest of the cast would be dead. He is well countered by McDowell in the role of a serpentine climber who may or may not be sleeping with both a male housemate and Bates' wife. As McDowell's keeper, a prissy old couturier, Olivier has The Collection's only openly emotional scene. It is a shocker. When he falls...
...personally," sighs Manhattan's Fidler. "I can't go to lunch, I can't go home, I can't sleep until I've solved it." Nashville's Appleton has a fat file marked BIG K (for kooks) groaning with the barely legible, highly paranoid ramblings of the city's loneliest losers; he answers their missives with phone calls in hopes that they can better explain themselves viva voce. Says he: "I'm always afraid that somewhere in there a guy has a real problem, and maybe I'm his last resort...
...monster appeared--a god of death that could vaporize entire cities in one nightmarish burst. Thirty years ago no consensus of feelings about The Bomb existed, but one thing was certain--everyone had a lot of respect, and fear, for nuclear technology. In some ways, that ominous and justifiably paranoid feeling remains in America, but for all practical purposes it has disappeared as nuclear devices--warlike and domestic--become commonplace. America's never-ending march towards technological improvement proceeds apace, so effectively that most people, excepting those sympathetic to the anti-nuke movement, think no more about nuclear power than...
...freshman who wished to remain anonymous said some freshman proctors warned students that they could be arrested in a demonstration. "The general attitude was to stay away--it's radical, it could be an incriminating thing. I'm still kind of paranoid," she said...
Approach #2. The Duke Mantee Autograph Model Paranoid Approach. Recommended for the Shy, the Truly paranoid, and the Easily Disgusted. Prerequisites: A nascent sense of misanthropy or the inability to deal with people whom you are convinced are either out people whom you are convinced are either out to get you or trying to prove their superiority. This famous approach, also suggested for the disdainful, lets you waltz through Freshman Week as an observer. As a non-combatant, you get to watch everyone else have a real "good time" while you stand at the finges, cringing or remaining aloof. Just...