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...until the Assad regime came to power in 1970; the Muslim Brotherhood launched a terror war against the regime in the 1980s; and Syria is still formally at war with Israel, which occupies Syrian land and almost certainly has spies operating here. As the saying goes, sometimes even the paranoid have enemies...
...Mass murder, in short, is not a random act. There are things that explain it. Psychosis, for one, can never be ruled out. Russell Weston, a 41-year-old killer who went on a shooting spree in the Capitol Building in Washington in 1998, was a paranoid schizophrenic. Brain injury in an otherwise healthy person can lead to similar violence. Damage to the frontal region of the brain, which regulates what psychologists call the observing ego, or the limbic region, which controls violence, reflection and defensive behavior, can shut down internal governors and trigger all manner of unregulated behavior. "Somebody...
...Witherspoon kills herself by standing right in their path. When the lights come up again, we find her perched on an armrest, explaining why Skylab is crashing to earth in a way that seems more like a fourth-grade teacher than one of Durang’s trademark paranoid neurotics...
...There’s this stretch where it says ‘Next gas 73 miles,’ and I always just have the idea that there are just killers out there just driving around that night.” The actor added in a paranoid tone, “You always wonder what the hell is going on in those [motel] rooms, you know what I mean?”While Wilson describes Stage 18 on the Sony lot, the “Vacancy” set, as rather scary—and according to him, cursed?...
...Pearce, of “Memento” fame), is haunted by the grim predictions of a roadside fortune teller who warns that his life is safe only until “the first snow.”At first a quick-talking and overconfident salesman, Jimmy grows paranoid and introspective, fearing that someone or something from his past is out to get him. “This is a story about somebody who suddenly wakes up one day and looks at the world entirely differently, and starts to feel like their life is closing in on them...