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...critics, Morgan is a paranoid liar who has invented the rape charges out of malice against Foretich; her defiance of Dixon's order, they argue, is a sign of obsession, not maternal devotion. To ethicists and legal scholars, the case raises some troubling questions: Should there be time limits on a judge's right to jail a person for civil contempt? Does a parent, where suspicions of sexual abuse exist, have a moral right to defy the courts to protect a child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: A Hard Case of Contempt | 9/18/1989 | See Source »

...extent that the hallucinatory stream of consciousness can be said to be "about" anything -- transvestism, multinational corporations, military buildups, Hostess cupcakes and rape of every variety. At times, director Reza Abdoh's 135-minute, intermissionless work, co-written with Mira- Lani Oglesby, sounds like the ravings of a paranoid schizophrenic; at times, it is performance art of fever pitch and mute beauty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Once Outposts, Now Landmarks | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

Being subject to two forms of discrimination has made him more conscious of prejudice, he says. "I'm paranoid. I'm oversensitive about both of these issues," he says. But he adds that he is not quite as sensitive to homophobia because he thinks gay people in America are now less vulnerable than Arabs...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Identities, Tangents and Trig | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

Watson was quoted as saying, "Overreacting and being paranoid is the only way we can deal with this system...Never think you imagined [racial insensitivity], because chances are that you didn...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: Voicing Controversial Views | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

What he actually said, according to Watson, is that "many people say" overreacting and being paranoid are the only ways of coping withthe system...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: Voicing Controversial Views | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

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