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...idea that led to alibi tapes came to Leisure Data President Steve Lichtenstein when he saw the movie The Owl and the Pussycat. "George Segal had this tape of a barking dog," he remembers, "and I suddenly saw the possibilities. The whole country is paranoid, especially city apartment dwellers. So I got an attack dog and taped him trying to chew me up. It began selling 1,000 copies a week all over the country, just so people could switch it on when the doorbell rang." Soon Lichtenstein's out-of-work friends asked him to tape a selection...
Though Calley has made no effort to travel incognito, sallies outside the confines of Fort Benning have been painful. "Sometimes, like in airports," he says, "I can feel everybody staring at me. I have stages of feeling very paranoid. The psychological testing showed I was paranoid, but hell, there are people trying to kill...
...stumbles down a crowded subway, still splattered with Patsy's blood. Though the seated travelers do not rise to help him, and look away embarrassedly, they're not particularly hateful. They're probably very interesting people themselves, and their faces are amusing. There's just no way in the paranoid conditions they live under that they and Alfred can break through to each other. While they sit, another train rumbles unnoticed past the subway windows...
...excited, but they would be given nothing to do. Yes, President Nixon would see that the campuses were not silent; but the sounds of empty words at teach-ins frighten him no more than do the thud and tinkle of shattered shopfront windows. Action alone impresses him-Eactionalized and paranoid, the Left has been unable to coordinate meaningful action. Marches and teach-ins and trashing readily attract participants; but they are not very meaningful. Only political organizing, performed diligently and persistently by an army of college students working in local communities, supported by a barrage of information dispensed through local...
...clownishness, and he tries to turn his film into a psychological drama. He begins to individualize characters. Motives appear. Instead of leaving his statement to a portrait of emotions, he determines to analyze the breakdown of a friendship. Harry is no longer good old Harry but an insecure sadistic paranoid who accuses his friends of talking behind his back. Archie, we find out, is no good in bed. Gus is Long Island suave to the point of obsession...