Word: paranoidly
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...balmy Sunday recently found Yuan Weijing and her two-year-old daughter in the apartment he has hardly left since arriving in Beijing on July 6. Yuan, 30, a forthright homemaker from the coastal province of Shandong, won't venture out for fear of being kidnapped. As paranoid as that might sound, in Yuan's case it is a well-founded concern. Her husband, Chen Guangcheng, a lawyer and activist, was himself kidnapped by policemen from his native Shandong province when he visited Beijing in June of 2005. Chen, who has been blind since birth, is now serving a four...
...viewed years ago in high school. I would have laughed too if this scene had occurred three months ago. I do not find it funny anymore. It is simply a bad joke about a tragic event: acquiring cancer. True, eyeball cancer sounds ridiculous in the cartoon that parodied overly paranoid individuals; however, it is not as humorous when it hits close to home...
...watch it on television, but instead I had to come out and see it with my own eyes." Haq picked up her mobile phone and scrolled to a popular text message making the rounds, a paraphrase of Euripides: "Those whom the gods would destroy they first make blind, paranoid and insane...
...Sant, who's made good films (Drugstore Cowboy, To Die For) and bad ones (Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Finding Forrester), got a prize for another miss: Paranoid Park, the muddled, nearly incoherent tale of a teen skateboarder haunted by a thoughtless killing. He received the 60th Anniversary Prize, Frears announced, "for his career, and because he made a lovely film...
...ample documentary-style Super-8 footage, that skateboarding is a noisy, solitary, occasionally graceful sport that is best accompanied by Nino Rota's score for Juliet of the Spirits. But mostly what I discovered is that you are mad about photographing young boys. Gabe Nevins, who plays Alex in Paranoid Park could have posed for Botticelli or Raphael, he's that gorgeous...