Word: paranoidly
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...mistake about it this is the smartest hand to come down the pike in a long time cliches notwithstanding. The sound that is synthesized here is all their own once you admit that its base is all James Brown and its one of the best sounds around Still somewhat paranoid hardening back to the punk the Heads cut their teeth on it's celebratory no doubt. Byrne didn't learn all about African music for nothing. And it's fun to boot, thanks to drummer Chris Frantz and bassist Tina Weymouth's joray into rap in rhythm with...
...hospitality, the bargains and the rare attractions they were offered. Ronald and Sandra Karp of Belmont, Mass., who spent their June vacation in Florence, Rome and Venice, were deeply impressed by "unbelievable" low-priced meals. After all the warnings they heard about purse snatchers, says Ronald, "we were paranoid by the time we got there. But the Italian people were warm and friendly, and nobody cheated us." Many returning tourists babble of the bargains to be had in European stores; on goods ranging from Armani coats to Zandra Rhodes fashions, prices are at least 50% lower than they...
...from Newark to Atlantic City and back in the morning, for $23 each way. This put them on a priority list of People's incoming passengers. But, said McConnell, so many other line squatters had done the same thing that priority might not mean much. "You get rather paranoid," he said. The major gripe is that the airline does not carry over stand-by lists from day to day, so that time served is not rewarded...
...Esquire--one detects the same imbalance over and over, a sort of ripple in the meticulous mirror-glass which the author holds up to picayune suburbia. Not that the impression dominates. Caught up in the smooth flow of Barthelme's prose, this reader has often dismissed it as a paranoid mirage. But now 17 of Barthelme's stories have been gathered into a book, and there can be no further question Frederick Barthelme has one big problem...
...sickness was psychosomatic. Kafka succumbed to tuberculosis in 1924 at the age of 40. But he regarded even real disease with paranoid suspicion: "My brain and my lungs must have conspired in secret." He believed in "only one illness, and medicine hunts it blindly like a beast through unending forests." The malady was life itself...