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...been accused of being paranoid about pollution [at the site]," said Horowitz. "But I don't understand why Polaroid should be unresponsive to testing the site before building there...
Forget organized. In the battle to remain up-to-date and flawlessly on time, only the paranoid survive...
...kind of a paranoid hygiene freak," he said, adding that he is glad he's not sharing a hall bath...
These out-of-hand dismissals pervade the book, stealing weight from other provocative, thoughtful ideas. In the Thernstroms' view, black protest in New York City after well-known racial episodes--in Crown Heights, Bensonhurst and Howard Beach--is evidence that paranoid blacks blame society at large for the nasty work of individuals. (Yet the high number of whites who supported Bernhard Goetz after he shot four black teenagers on the subway is attributed not to white paranoia but to white awareness of high black-crime rates...
...bloom with familiarity, there is often no structure to be found in the remaining half-dozen numbers. Songs wander and then wander off, promising much and then dwindling away to nothing. OK Computer does contain some complex, lovely music--the welcoming openness of Airbag; the baroque beauty of Paranoid Android; the steady, solemn build of Let Down. On those songs, this album takes flight, achieves orbit and looks down on all the earthbound bands below that are afraid to take such stylistic chances. But listeners should beware: there's only so much oxygen...