Word: paranoid
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...small failures of Ellmann's new collection that Nora's reply to Joyce's paranoid accusation is never mentioned. Ellmann called it "a pathetic yet strangely dignified letter" in his biography. It was lost but can be partly reconstructed from a letter Joyce sent to Nora dated August 31, 1909: a condescending missive saying "you are not, as you say, a poor uneducated girl...
...addition, her emphasis curtails the range of emotions implicit in the script, since characters as different as the cynical Mr. Paravicini and the pathetic would-be architect Christopher Wren emerge in this production as similarly successful comic types. Sometimes laughter intrudes where it shouldn't; for example, Wren's paranoid outburst in the second act ("You're all against me, everyone's always been against me"), is in context far more amusing than pitiable...
...being no exception. One of the better of the Oswald-Nixon-Sirhan Sirhan-Hunt-Walt Disney-Did-It genre, Three Days of the Condor, now showing at the Circle Theater in Brookline, makes the trip over the Charles to Cleveland Circle worthwhile. Robert Redford battles the mailman, Faye Dunaway, paranoid and the CIA in a taut and suspenseful film. By the end, it's tough to figure out whom to trust, except the Sundance...
...investigation by Attorney General Robert Kennedy '48, anti-Castro elements in Florida, those who suspected that the President was wavering in his commitment to South Vietnam, and Lyndon Johnson. These sorts of charges, lacking the necessary circumstantial evidence, lend credence to charges that Sale is just another left-wing paranoid kook...
...Pacino, as the "brains" of the operation, gives an electric performance, charged with a lunatic energy that expertly captures the weird blend of confidence and self-deprecation (if not hatred) that marks the paranoid syndrome...