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Administrators believe that students, who were raised listening to Rockwell's "Somebody's Watching Me" and watching reruns of "The Prisoner," are a little paranoid if they believe that Big Brother is watching them...

Author: By Nara K. Ahn, | Title: Keeping Tabs | 1/15/1993 | See Source »

Sound a little paranoid? Cube acknowledges that ("My mind's playing tricks on me too") while simultaneously justifying his high anxiety. A native of South Central Los Angeles, he wears that city's riots like a crown of thorns, invoking them again and again as proof of his worst fears about America. On Now I Gotta Wet 'Cha, he goes after the white cops in the Rodney King episode: "Those devils can beat up a motorist/ And get nothing but a slap on the wrist/ Gorillas, gorillas/ Report to the mist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Look Back In Anger | 12/28/1992 | See Source »

...mustache, looks as much like Frankenstein's monster as Joseph Stalin in HBO's new film about the Soviet dictator. Certainly his deeds are just as monstrous, and even more unfathomable. Directed by Ivan Passer, STALIN vividly chronicles the revolutionary footsoldier's rise to power and his ruthless, increasingly paranoid reign of terror. The scenes of Stalin's 1930s' purges are especially chilling, and the film gratifyingly avoids hokey re-creations of "big" historical events like the Yalta Conference. Still, despite Duvall's intense performance, the century's least charismatic evildoer remains a stubbornly opaque figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Nov. 23, 1992 | 11/23/1992 | See Source »

...party with my fraternity this weekend," he wrote recently. "It was our Samurai party. Hey wait, I can spell check now. Cool, I don't have to be paranoid about my spelling and I can type real fast and let it catch all my mistakes. Sweet. Back to Samurai, it was quite a blast. We filled a huge hole in the back yard with imported beers and all dressed up like Japanese things. I was a karaoke machine. It was one of the best costumes. I carried a tape of myself playing the music to the Pet Song I wrote...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: What Lies Beyond The Masquerade | 11/14/1992 | See Source »

...long second act McNally moves his play into more maudlin, paranoid territory; the Callas arias get louder, the dialogue grows tense, and eventually Stephen's obsessive behavior culminates in a crime of passion lifted directly from Carmen...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Traviata Makes Light of Life's Calamities | 11/12/1992 | See Source »

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