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...forms of storytelling. Blindspot by Darcy Steinke is a multimedia tale about a nervous young mom taking care of her baby one night while she waits for her philandering husband to come home. As the story unfolds, you can hear her clock strike midnight, read meandering asides about her paranoid fears of an intruder and see the floor plan of her apartment slowly revealed onscreen. More ambitious narratives, such as Grammatron by Mark Amerika, which tackles everything from Cabala to virtual sex, come across as pretentious, thanks to lines like, "I ask of writing what I ask of desire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clicking on the Canvas | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

...likes to note, of providing him with a lift. "I always won," he recalls cheerfully.) And Bobby Fischer has been playing chess with few people other than himself ever since he quit as world champion and practically disappeared 25 years ago. But then, Fischer has the look of a paranoid schizophrenic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drinking Aftershave: A Confession | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

...going to put a billboard up advertising them," Pasquarello says. "You try not to make people paranoid...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Where's Your Wallet? Pickpockets Hit the Square | 3/1/2000 | See Source »

...began stretching, my sweat became even more evident. My light gray t-shirt was now dark gray. A brown belt named Doug observed my jerky movements and paranoid demeanor and said, "Just try to relax...

Author: By J. MITCHELL Little, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: "Just try to relax . . . " Little Takes on the Black Belts | 3/1/2000 | See Source »

...tricky to fertilize because their outer membrane gets too hard. But a new technique called intracytoplasmic sperm injection makes frozen ova fully fertilizable, and so now Guy Land can have its ovum banks. As for the incubation problem, a few years ago feminist writer Gena Corea offered the seemingly paranoid suggestion that men might eventually keep just a few women around in "reproductive brothels," gestating on demand. A guy will pick an ovum for attractive qualities like smart, tall and allergy-free, then have it inserted into some faceless surrogate mother employed as a reproductive slave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Women Still Need Men? | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

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