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...book and movie called The Falcon and the Snowman, claims the security check he underwent in 1974 "was a joke." If investigators had talked to just one his friends, he testified, they would have found a "room full disillusioned longhairs, counter culture falconers, druggie surfers, several wounded, paranoid vets, pot-smoking, anti-Establishment types." Instead, Boyce was not only hired but was assigned to monitor secret worldwide communications between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spying to Support a Life-Style | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

Hollywood first became aware of alien visitors in the '50s, when the cold war was at its height, flying saucers were flitting over suburban barbecues, and Americans were feeling, perhaps justifiably, a little paranoid. Among the first of these science-fiction creature features was The Thing, a real scarer in which a huge and extremely unpleasant plant lands in the Arctic, the point man, so to speak, of an invasion by other vainglorious veggies. "You mean we're dealing with a walking carrot?" asks an indignant reporter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Close Encounters, but Unkind | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...everyone says I have a great work ethic, I’m going to go out and take a hundred more swings,’” he adds. “But it was just too much focus on quantity. I was always paranoid that someone in Florida was working out harder than I was up here in Boston. I was always competing against that...

Author: By Lande A. Spottswood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BASEBALL 2005: All Grown Up | 4/8/2005 | See Source »

...video is lackluster, like most of his other serious endeavors with the exception of “Mosh,” and the most interesting thing about it is the generic, two dimensional way he portrays the anonymous rappers going after him. In total, it’s paranoid, overly dramatic, and lyrically forceful—a song to rival “Stan,” perhaps, for most crossover potential. I don’t even know what I’m saying anymore...

Author: By Leon Neyfakh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Total' Eclipse of the Heart | 2/24/2005 | See Source »

Perot seems to realize he will never be President; too many Americans distrust and dislike him after his paranoid and imperious performances, from his baseless charge during the 1992 campaign that the G.O.P. was trying to disrupt his daughter's wedding through the 1993 debate with Vice President Al Gore over trade. In a TIME/CNN poll conducted last week, 54% of those surveyed believe Perot's formation of the new party is "good for the country." A two-thirds majority, however, think Perot should not be that party's candidate for President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIS TIME, PEROT WANTS A PARTY | 2/17/2005 | See Source »

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