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...patients? family members tell me the same thing, "She was doing okay, just barely, but then the Trade Center...." I think about how those of us who think of ourselves as stable feel - terrified, disbelieving, stressed to the limit - and try to imagine what it?s like to be paranoid already, and then have this happen...
...someone unfamiliar with the Wesley Willis canon, it may seem strange that this 350-plus pound, paranoid schizophrenic who sings such timeless classics as “I Whupped Batman’s Ass,” “Rock and Roll McDonalds” and “Cut That Mullet” easily sold out T.T. the Bear’s on Friday, Sept. 14. Willis is, by any reasonable measure of musical talent, completely talentless. The songs—all of approximately the same length and same musical infrastructure, consist of strung-together expletives and choruses...
...Amtrak train on Friday. He was even discovered to be hiding a daggeractually a symbolic weaponin his shirt. A woman wearing a sari was nearly run down by a man outraged that he had been stopped by the cops. These are isolated instances of a sense of paranoid McCarthyism which we had thankfully left behind us. We must not allow it to resurface at a time when we need careful analysis and effective action...
...final word on how to get out any stain, how to sweep a floor (to the center) and how to remove candle wax (apply ice until the wax crumbles). After reading her book, you will throw out your old sponges, always have white vinegar handy and become slightly paranoid about mold and dust mites. Her reigning philosophy is that the right way of doing something is almost always the fastest. Also, you should do only what...
Franzen's literary heroes are the masters of the paranoid, postmodern novel--William Gaddis, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo--writers who spin huge plots full of manic undertakings and dense riffs on civilization and its discontents. The book he put aside to write The Corrections was cut from that cloth. "It had prisons, race relations, stock-market corrections," Franzen says. "The 'corrections' in the finished book are more personal." The social disorders of the 21st century are expressed mostly through the personal distempers of the three siblings and their flight to the false consolations of sex, careerism and consumerism. "They...