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Leontes is impulsive and paranoid; and his jealousy, unlike Othello's is wholly internal, "begot upon itself." His "too hot, too hot!" speech should be sufficient preparation for nay audience. There is also a strong strain of immaturity in Leontes. Kahn underlines this at the very start by showing us Leontes and Polixenes, an almost twin-like pair, stripped to the waist. Trying to recapture their stripped to the waist, trying to recapture their boyhood by arm wrestling. When Leontes, a bit later, sees Polixenes and Hermione innocuously holding hand, he starts chewing on the end of the tie-cord...
...Camerawork. For all his adrenal meanderings, Tarden is not without wit. He often affects an officer's uniform of no known country, then parades through towns watching functionaries cringe and scrape before him. By seizing upon the paranoid fantasies of East European officials, he forces a bureaucracy to fall of its own weight and makes good his escape-as did his creator 18 years...
...suppose, that when you go to sleep maybe someone will jump on you during the night. They never did. But you think about those things. It was a lunatic asylum." The Florida State Hospital was indeed an insane asylum, and Donaldson was committed there by his father as a "paranoid schizophrenic" in 1957. He was a college dropout and a divorced father of three; though he had held regular jobs, he had begun complaining that he was being harassed by unknown people. Since Donaldson was given virtually no psychiatric treatment, he repeatedly sued for his freedom. After his release...
...York stood at 30,000, and one gang posted notices that any policeman wandering into its neighborhood would be shot. At the turn of the century, Chicago saloonkeepers could expect to be held up every three or four days. Innocent gas-meter readers were being shot by paranoid householders. Newspapers observed that there were too many six-year-old boys roaming the streets armed with knives and guns, and the mayor of Chicago suggested that the crime problem would be solved if citizens would "carry revolvers strapped outside their clothing." In San Francisco, a brawling town with more than...
Mosley said, "Not one woman made it in because she is a woman and not one man made it in because Harvard was getting paranoid about accepting so many women. I think we got the best...