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Michael said yesterday he is "paranoid" and added, "I'd jump if someone touched me. It scares the people I'm with. It's the worst thing I've ever been through," he added...

Author: By Jeffrey E. Seifert, | Title: Gay Student at UMass-Amherst Harrassed by 'UTOPIA' Group | 10/23/1981 | See Source »

Korchnoi is described even by friends as paranoid. He refuses to drive in his adopted Switzerland because, he says, the KGB would arrange an accident. Since his defection, the Soviets have attempted to boycott every tournament he has entered, except the world championships. Korchnoi's complaint: "Karpov is a little boy. I know of no other player with such poor end-game technique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Duel in the Dolomites | 10/12/1981 | See Source »

...Guardian Angels are not the descendants of the Brown Shirts, but only faith and not the facts justify such optimism. The Angels must rigidly be held accountable to the local government and their actions should not be given the benefit of the doubt. It's easy to be paranoid about the latent fascism behind trained citizen patrol groups, but it is better to be paranoid than wrong...

Author: By Martin B. Schwimmer, | Title: Guarding Against the Angels | 10/9/1981 | See Source »

...result in tension on location, and there are some actors the artists will not work with. After clashing with Robert De Niro on The Deer Hunter, for instance, Smith resigned from the picture and now refuses to go on a set with him. Says Smith: "Bobby is a paranoid perfectionist, and it is difficult to satisfy someone like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Wizards of Goo and Gadgetry | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

...devoted $17 million to a modern farce about the hundreds of midgets and dwarfs who went to Hollywood to play the Oz Munchkins, and by their lewd shenanigans cut the town down to size. Rainbow's plot is serviceably convoluted, involving a Secret Service agent (Chevy Chase), a paranoid Graustarkian duke and his Sicilian assassin-in-waiting, a pair of Axis spies, 25 Japanese camera buffs, four dead dogs and 150 little people. (Make that 151: Carrie Fisher plays their den mother.) But Director Steve Rash's pacing is slack, the lighting is inappropriately murky, and eventually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes: Aug. 31, 1981 | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

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