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...sympathy were on a fellow - played by Rogen, everyone's favorite jovial slob - who is this close to the simmering psycho Robert De Niro played in Taxi Driver? The gun love, the quiet surliness, the loner status, the head whisperings, the mistaken fashioning of other people's motives into paranoid scenarios - all echo the violent cabbie in Martin Scorsese's movie, whose script was inspired by the diary of Arthur Bremer, the would-be assassin of Governor George Wallace...
...Curtis, McVeigh has an uncanny knack for delivering the most vacuous lyrics with commendable seriousness and brooding passion. The title track, while arguably the strongest song on the album and the one with the most commercial appeal, sounds at times like the pubescent diary entries of a lovesick and paranoid teenager: “He said to lose my life or lose my love / That’s the nightmare I’ve been running from.” It gets even more bizarre when the band attempts to imbue the lyrics with sappy romanticism, as in the chorus...
...fanatic bookkeeping sounds excessive or paranoid, Fisher can assure you it isn't. In 2003 she published a study involving embryonic stem cells in the journal Science. The paper appeared online at noon one day, and within a few hours, she received an e-mail from a congressional staffer containing an exhaustive list of all her NIH grants and asking which had been used to support that study. "It was my first realization about how closely the government was watching," she says...
...Royal not only belittles her victorious rival, President Nicolas Sarkozy, as a greedy, vain, amoral "little boy happy to be surrounded by his toys," she also takes swipes with similar venom at fellow Socialist Party heavyweights. Oddly enough, Royal appears to hope that the book's belligerent and paranoid-sounding attacks on friends and foes alike will boost her popularity ahead of another anticipated run at the Elys...
...self-defeating Socialist Party constantly torn apart by individual ambition. But critics say Royal is part and parcel of the very thing she criticizes. Moreover, in blaming fellow Socialists, the media and Sarkozy's allies for conspiring to deny her, Royal frequently comes off sounding alternately self-aggrandizing and paranoid. "This book is bizarre, because it shows Royal shedding the profile and language of traditional politicians without her assuming any other persona beyond someone demanding attention from the public and media," says Dominique Reynié, director of the Foundation for Political Development, a Paris-based think tank...