Word: paranoia
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...star of Robert Altman's The Player, Robbins learned how to keep things smartly abustle. And in the manner of Altman's TV series Tanner '88, he sets an easily acidulous tone; Robbins is having fun poking fun. Ultimately, as if to prove paranoia is not unique to right-wingers, he blames Bob and his advisers for every political atrocity of the past decade -- and a few new ones, including framing a rabid fringe journalist (Giancarlo Esposito) who may have the goods on bad Bob. The crimes are listed not so much to push a leftish agenda as to clarify...
Reporting from a paranoia-mad communist country has never been easy, and these days Cuba is a more difficult assignment than ever. Most journalists do the prescribed, unenlightening rounds of officialdom in Havana, sneak off to see a few dissidents, then interview cab drivers or disgruntled locals in food lines. Honesty is like bread -- a commodity on rations. Oppenheimer, a Pulitzer-prizewinning correspondent for the Miami Herald, found a way around this difficulty: he carried letters from Cubans in Miami to relatives on the island, thus gaining their trust. As a result, he captures a truer, if sadder, portrait...
Havel, born in 1935 and raised in a well-to-do bourgeois family, began as an absurdist playwright in the style of Ionesco or Pinter or Beckett. An attitude of surrealist paranoia turned out to be the right moral optic through which to see the Communist world clearly, and Havel had keen eyesight. Constricted as a playwright, he became a dissident. Imprisoned as a dissident, he became a symbol. Communism was brutal and stupid and corrupt. Havel was Czechoslovakia with brains -- the country's better self, its idealist, its moral philosopher, the visionary of "living in truth." When the Communist...
...first wave of gay response to AIDS was fear, mixed alternately with denial and paranoia. The second wave, the past few years, has been a therapeutic anger, an opportunity for the grief-stricken to vent their pain and for the dying to give meaning to their premature passing. The third and current wave of gay response to AIDS is once again dominated by fear, this time based on a sense of grim inevitability. The medical news is not good. The civil rights struggle is taking far longer than most people thought. The gay leaders during the first decade...
Bush's network of family and family retainers also piled on. Presidential press secretary Marlin Fitzwater said Perot's "paranoia knows no bounds," while drug czar Bob Martinez labeled Perot "not fit to be President." Casting off her grandmotherly pose, Barbara Bush called Perot's behavior "bizarre" and traced his ire at her husband to the fact that Bush had spurned a job offer from Perot 25 years ago. By the end of the week, Vice President Dan Quayle was referring to the diminutive Texan as "Inspector Perot...