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...John. (1952) Paranoid fantasy from the McCarthy era stars Helen Hayes and Van Heflin. Dean Jagger hits son John, a suspected Communist, over the head with a Bible in one of the film's more subtle moments. CH.5...
...rifles, and I hear that those with 15,000 kyat (about $17) can buy themselves out. The Burmese military is stronger than ever?nearly 40% of the national budget goes to the armed forces, making them the second largest in Southeast Asia after Vietnam's?but also more paranoid than ever. The state-run media is obsessed with Iraq: newspapers carry dozens of articles about suicide bombings, tumbling U.S. troop morale and rising casualties while state TV lifts footage from CNN and dubs over its own gloating commentary. The specter of military intervention has haunted the generals since...
...course nobody, not even Air, plays with this technological contrast without inviting comparison to Radiohead. On a gorgeously schizophrenic rendition of “People in the City,” Dunckel and Godin got in touch with their inner paranoid android, swinging wildly between rock stomp and tropical synth. But I suspect that their android is just suffering from a mild case of ennui, because Air is having way too much sex to endorse Radiohead’s apocalyptic prolepsis...
...Everything In Its Right Place” is much more of a group piece, allowing bassist Larry Grenadier to shine on the insistent bassline that underpins the obsessive-compulsive song, which ranks a close second to Mehldau’s earlier interpretation of “Paranoid Android...
Starsky is fastidious to the point of compulsion and deeply paranoid. Hutch is so laid-back he's almost comatose, cool as a penguin holidaying on ice. In life they would be a screeching misalliance. In a more or less comic movie they are a match made in heaven. And it must be said that tense, tidy Ben Stiller and loose, louche Owen Wilson are perfectly cast in this movie version of the old TV series...