Word: paranoidal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Call me a skeptic, but I have serious doubts about whether Maynard actually had an affair with Salinger in the first place. Hermetic, paranoid authors all tend to look alike--they're all sort of blurred, at least in the photographs. Maybe she had an affair with Thomas Pynchon, thinking he was Salinger. And how do we know for sure that Salinger actually wrote the letters? Obviously this is pure speculation, but perhaps Patsy Ramsey wrote them. I've heard that handwriting experts who viewed the letters at Sotheby's can't completely rule out that possibility...
Gerald Minsk used to drop acid and smoke pot to help quell paranoid delusions that Boston's North End mafiosi were conspiring against him. Yes, it's crazy to take hallucinogens to soothe your hallucinations. But that's what untreated mental illness does to you. It can also leave you jobless and sleeping under the Boston University bridge. That's what happened to Minsk, anyway, in the 1970s. For years, his bipolar disorder was virtually ignored as he cycled in and out of jails, mental hospitals and community centers, none of which took the time, or had the resources...
...must forgive Bill Gates if he's feeling a bit paranoid this week. By a brutal coincidence, his firm faces the unenviable task of defending itself in four different courtrooms simultaneously. Tiny software companies in Utah and Connecticut are taking Microsoft to task for its strong-arm operating-system tactics. Over in California, larger rival Sun Microsystems wants to save its Java programming language from Microsoft "pollution." And oh, yeah, there's the small matter of the antitrust trial, resuming Tuesday in Washington, where Justice Department lawyers are set to wheel out their biggest gun yet, an executive from...
That may be a little too paranoid even for Gates. But when it comes to the broadband Internet, the world's richest man has reason to worry. After all, high-speed Web access and the proliferation of Web-based applications could one day make his operating system obsolete. That's why when the trial resumes, the threat of AOL Everywhere may be Microsoft's best defense...
...asking her nicely doesn't work, visit shareware.com for a software solution. The Block for Macs uses an elaborate password system, while Encrypted Magic Folders for PCs hides files and folders. For the truly paranoid, RedHand Pro (PC) blocks access to programs and websites, disables the modem and password-protects your entire PC. It even logs attempted break-ins. First time with shareware? Download WinZip (PC) or StuffIt Expander (Mac) first; you'll need them to open the programs...