Word: paranoidly
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South Florida--the strip between Miami and West Palm Beach--is very strange. There are lots of old people there. Many are paranoid, big-mouthed, incredibly pushy New York Jews. Even worse, their bodily fluids have been dried up from spending too much time lying under the tropical sun and complaining about the havoc other people's grandchildren are wreaking on the shuffleboard equipment, baking their brains into blackened rocks. You get the Picture...
Mickey and Bobby do find some initial success. Their first day in town they land jobs with Booger McCoy (Harry S. Murphy), a big, paranoid toolpusher who's been pushing tools for three days straight, and Mickey is confident he can teach Bobby the meaning of "real work." Then the going gets though, and the tough keep coming to town...
...when New York City Mayor Edward Koch ordered social workers to begin rounding up the homeless mentally ill last month, Brown was the first person picked up and forcibly committed to Bellevue Hospital. The diagnosis: paranoid schizophrenia. Brown, represented by the New York Civil Liberties Union, contested her "incarceration." Last week she won the first round in what promises to be a landmark court battle over the rights of the homeless, many of whom suffer from psychiatric disorders...
...houses on the stage are especially effective, since, as my companion pointed out, they demonstrate the paranoid, skewed perspectives of their inhabitants, Jake and Beth. The houses are built on a superhuman scale, with the doorways, windows, walls, and even the floors at bizarre angles to each other. The houses are placed far enough from each other that they seem hundreds of miles apart--which, as the script suggests, they are--yet they are close enough for Jake, imagining he sees Beth, to actually look over to her house...
...grabbed her purse and dashed off to a waiting car. Two weeks later the still shaken housewife could be found at a local shooting range, carefully aiming her new Smith & Wesson .38 Special at the blue silhouette of a would-be assailant. Says Stark: "The robbery made me very paranoid, and I just want to protect myself. Next time I won't be afraid...