Word: paranoia
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...attack on a cousin of the royal family's. In the course of foiling it, he kills one of the attackers, thereby bringing on himself and his family the relentless, psychopathic enmity of the attacker's brother Sean Miller (Sean Bean, a good, constantly smoldering source of side-stream paranoia...
These are lofty ideals in a time of cynicism and paranoia regarding big government...
...Kosovo Albanians started agitating for the status of a republic. The Serbs feared that the next step would be secession, then union with Albania, and many fled. In the late '80s Milosevic fanned the patriotic paranoia of the remaining Serbs there and put the province under direct and extremely repressive rule from Belgrade...
...claims to be CIA (Mickey Rourke in a role small enough so he doesn't wear out his welcome), some crooked arms dealers and a sexy mystery woman (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) all cherchez le loot. Director Roger Donaldson puts a curiously cheerful spin on paranoia, and Willem Dafoe, as a deputy sheriff, provides a knowing parody of Charlton Heston doing jut-jawed heroics...
...other reason than to avoid enervating paranoia, I think we should try hard to read each other's remarks at face value and to make it as easy as possible for each other to back off from positions we often never wish to represent. It perplexes me to watch students seem to have a thick skin for the utter neglect some professors and people in power show them and thin skin for the unintended wounds peers who take them seriously cause...