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...this is greatest Super Bowl mismatch ever? If you go by what bettors think, the answer is no. (And if you put much stake into what a pool of such paranoid people think, seek help immediately.) The Rams are favored Sunday by 14 1/2 points, which is the third-highest spread in Super Bowl history. The largest spread ever was 19 points, which the favored 49ers covered in their 49-26 Super Bowl XXIX win over the Chargers. Efforts to officially rename that game as The Greatest Buzzkill of All Time have been rejected by the NFL. Back in Super...
...There's no reason to be paranoid; there's just reason to be careful. If someone wants desperately to target you, they can probably get a lot of information about you - so you just need to minimize the criminal's opportunities to get that information. You can make yourself a harder target, and that's probably your best defense...
...thought it was all over. I checked myself into an observation ward [in a hospital] for a while because I knew I was suicidal. I wanted to get some help. And I had an epiphany. I saw people who had profound emotional problems. These people were manic-depressives and paranoid schizophrenics. I looked around and said to myself, I don't have any problems. I realized all I was doing was being absurdly self-absorbed and giving in to self-pity, and I wanted to just get out. So I told them what they wanted to hear. I took...
What's terrific about Howard's somewhat fictionalized but entirely absorbing biopic about John Forbes Nash Jr., the Nobel-prizewinning mathematician and economic theorist who was for several decades immobilized by paranoid schizophrenia, is the simple, elegant way Howard thrusts us into Nash's disastrously troubled mind. He forces us, without any distracting or distancing cinematic devices, to experience the world as Nash does, and one can't say much more about that because Howard's style brilliantly hides the movie's slowly dawning central surprise...
...Toward the end he often soured into rancor and vindictiveness. He laid a paranoid rant on Alec Wilder when the esteemed musicologist asked permission to quote snatches of Berlin songs for his study "American Popular Music." And though Berlin enjoyed writing parodies of other composers' songs, he sued Mad magazine for a 1962 folio of song parodies, including several of his ("Always," "A Pretty Girl..."). The suit was eventually dismissed. Finally he believed that a cultural environment that ignored his contributions was no culture at all. "Show business?" he told a friend. "There's no more show business! We whistle...