Word: paranoidly
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...left in any recognizable way. There is a wide gulf between I Was a Communist for the FBI and The Strawberry Statement, but the two films share a total inability to portray the substance, or even the style, of radical political activity. American films about radicalism are either paranoid cartoons, like the first, or patronizing gobbledygook, like the second...
...bursts of shaky rhetoric can be excused. "Ms." should in no sense be construed as just a gaggle of paranoid women sounding off. If the writing seems overly forceful in places, it arises from the conviction that shouting works better than subtlety. Women must pass beyond the limitations of polemic, packaging, and advertising in "Ms." and more seriously consider exactly what these people are trying to say, what they see in our culture that they are striving to change...
...Vanzetti were arrested and tried in a period that was shaken by prejudice and distrust. The United States had entered a period of post-war isolationism, and the "Red Raids" ordered by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer in 1920 were only the most obvious manifestation of a generally paranoid political climate...
...sound you hear is of checkbooks closing all over Hollywood. The books belong to the smart money; the reason for their action is The Last Movie* by Dennis Hopper-the same Dennis Hopper who recently opened the checkbook:, with Easy Rider. The faults of that film are legendary-the paranoid swagger, the inept drug trips, the comicbook heroism. But the film also shared with other examples of naive art an undisciplined energy and a curious magnetism. Its minuscule production cost (under $500,000) and giant grosses (over $50 million) made it the Volkswagen of the American film...
...Senator Scott, I think you're paranoid," Gregory shot back-to which Scott muttered in reply that those testifying before the Committee were "brainwashed...