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Half an hour late, Poet Anne Waldman rises to introduce the aging enfant terrible, now 55. She arouses the crowd to nostalgia for dissent with the code language of the antiEstablishment. She describes Ginsberg as a product of "postwar materialist paranoid doldrums." She proclaims, to the audience's laughter, that Howl was "written while Allen was living on unemployment compensation...
...When you have groups feeling isolated within the whole University, people begin to feel paranoid and positions begin to harden. That's when situations begin to develop," he added...
...final decade in Graceland, with its turn-of-the-century whorehouse décor of red plush and smoked mirrors. Elvis subsisted on a diet of charred bacon, mashed potatoes and very sophisticated opiates and uppers. His affairs in shambles, he fired most of his faithful retinue in a paranoid frenzy of firearms and pills. An abject drug addict, he flew to Washington for a spur-of-the-moment meeting with Richard Nixon in connection with his role as a spokesman for the President's antidrug campaign. Said Nixon: "You dress pretty wild, don't you?" Replied...
...They're all paranoid and turning on each other," says Deputy Warden Lloyd Mixdorf. Warns Classifications Officer John Byers: "It's a madhouse. Everyone's thinking of either squealing or of who will squeal." Contends a state prison monitor, Daniel Cron: "The atmosphere is explosive. The prison is not under control...
...artist turning, at midcareer, away from modernist fragmentation. Solid, chunky, driven, greedy: these adjectives apply to Kitaj's appropriation of the world-particularly the bodies of women-with line. Sometimes his egotism goes out of control or his taste fails him, or both, as in an absurdly paranoid self-portrait that looks like Jack Nicholson fried on acid. But when confronted with the posed model, in The Waitress or his various nude studies, Kitaj draws better than almost anyone else alive, taking on all the expressive and factual responsibilities of depiction and carrying most of them through...