Word: paranoidly
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Created on a whim one afternoon, it’s a remarkably versatile work, with moments that are aggressively visceral, irreverent, intensely paranoid and eerily beautiful. Missy Elliott’s familiar “Get Ur Freak On” crashes into violent breakcore shards from DJ Scud and militant boom-bap from Dead Prez early on, yet an hour later the listener is swimming deliriously in the audio experiments of Oval and Muslimgauze. But DJ /rupture’s real brilliance lies not in his eclecticism, an aspiration that Clayton finds “horrifying?...
...support of Flannigan's effort, a new psychiatrist, Dr. Nageswararao Vallabhaneni, wrote two damaging reports about Yoder. One said Yoder was having "paranoid delusions" but gave only sketchy examples: "[Yoder] named several people as his political enemies," the doctor wrote, specifying three individuals, including Hardy. Yoder had defeated Hardy in two courts and was involved in lawsuits with the other two people--none of which Vallabhaneni mentioned. On the very day he was to be released for hitting his ex-wife, Yoder was handcuffed and driven to the Chester center...
...mental illness' and the activities of the psychiatric profession are often scientifically untenable and morally indefensible." Szasz views mental illness as a metaphor for disturbing and disruptive behaviors, which he says arise from our circumstances and personality--and from our own choices. Until there is incontrovertible proof that, say, paranoid personality disorder is caused by an actual lesion in the brain, Szasz will argue such a label is a mere characterization of bad behavior that shouldn't carry the force...
Chester's worst failure may be Yoder himself, a man who--according to the facility--hasn't improved under its care. If Yoder is paranoid, certainly the worst approach is to omit information from his record and violate the painstaking procedures for committing someone. (Appellate judges have overturned three of Yoder's 13 commitment orders because of improprieties.) Some argue that Chester officials aren't so much hostile toward Yoder as negligent. "My fear is that they just don't care enough about Rodney to take any action," says Mark Heyrman, a Chicago law professor who once represented Yoder...
...after spinal surgery; in Los Angeles. A force in TV and movies for nearly half a century, he directed 42 Playhouse 90 shows (including Days of Wine and Roses) before turning to feature films. In 1962 he made Birdman of Alcatraz and The Manchurian Candidate, template for the modern paranoid conspiracy tragicomedy. Seven Days in May and Seconds painted bleak portraits of an America at war with its best instincts. He sagged personally and professionally after the death of Robert Kennedy, whom he drove to the candidate's rendezvous with an assassin. The director rebounded in the '90s with such...