Word: schizoid
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...awaited execution in the mid-'80s, Bobby Shaw's condition deteriorated. He became withdrawn and disheveled -- and the prison system finally took notice. In September 1986 a new department of corrections report announced that Shaw had a "schizoid personality disorder." But it was all too late...
Baalbek is the most schizoid of Lebanese towns, home to both ancient beauty and modern terror. Dominating the landscape are the magnificent, 2,000-year- old ruins of three Roman temples, their stone pillars rising high above the Bekaa Valley. Since 1983, Baalbek has also been under the control of the Shi'ite Muslim fundamentalist group known as Hizballah (Party of God), whose members claim allegiance to Iran. Operating under several different names, Hizballah is believed to have plotted the 1983 bombing of Marine headquarters in Beirut that killed 241 Americans. Since 1982, groups tied to Hizballah have kidnapped more...
...ultimate suburbia. He was poised between ambition and anger, between the need to ingratiate himself with the predominantly white mass audience and, at the same time, the need to tell it hard truths. He was a performer running risks with his audience, but more important, with his slightly schizoid self. Destructive possibilities -- of the comedian's always tenuous bond with his audience, therefore of career -- were hinted at. We were kept on edge...
...style is both daunting and lurching; it has trouble deciding which of its antagonists should set the tone. It can be as manic as the Joker, straining to hear the applause of outrage; it can be as implosive as Batman-Bruce, who seems crushed by the burden of his schizoid eminence. This tension nearly exhausts the viewer and the film...
...incident was a reminder of the schizoid U.S. trade policy toward Viet Nam, perhaps intended as an overture to its former enemy. Actually, there are two policies, says William Cassidy, former Customs service consultant: "One is the policy they tell the American people . . . the embargo. The second . . . pursued in secret, ((is)) the lack of enforcement." While Customs has turned a blind eye, Vietnamese refugees in the U.S. have shipped up to $200 million a year in currency and goods to their homeland. "People assumed that it was O.K.," says Mai Cong, president of the Vietnamese Community Center of Orange County...