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Paranoia, Political paranoia, the kind you get when you see a fascist behind every rock. I know quite a few people who count themselves as politically active, and to a man (or woman) they're all a touch paranoid. But to call Alice Cooper and their ABC-WBCN simulcast a harbinger of creeping facism, as Andrew Kopkind did in last week's Phoenix, strikes me as so much hysterical over-reacting...
...airline employees and passengers -and Government agencies, too-are properly educated about skyjackers. Psychiatrist Hubbard believes, tragedies like the one in Houston can be avoided. Skyjackers, says Hubbard, are not normal men who can be dealt with as if they were ordinary criminals; in most cases they are paranoid, suicidal schizophrenics to whom the threat of death is not a deterrent but a stimulus to crime. Thus Hubbard believes that the Federal Government is endangering air travelers by pursuing its belligerent policy toward skyjackers. In fact, he says, each time the Government escalates its response to aerial piracy, it excites...
...lost a leg has become paranoid, suspicious of everyone around...
...authoritarian figure who facilitates an escape from their repression while promising the persistence of a social order in which they believe. Theirs is a war against both the rich and the urban poor, the activist workers and students, and the wealthy urban and suburban capitalists. The willingness of the paranoid elderly to entrust themselves to Marjoe recalls that scene in Cabaret in which a member of Hitler's Youth teaches the old men in a German beer garden the words to "Tommorrow Belongs...
Most of the earl's estate, which seems to be the size of Delaware, goes to his only living son Jack (Peter O'Toole), an odd sort who runs about in monk's habit sublimely certain that he is God. "He's a paranoid schizophrenic," his doctor diagnoses, to which Jack's Uncle Charles sputters indignantly: "But he's a Gurney...