Word: paranoia
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Gray recounts his trip to Nicaragua with his girlfriend of ten years, also the director of Monster, Renee Shafransky. He also tells of his AIDS scare and paranoia about death, and harks back to his mother's suicide, the point in the book that he cannot get past. Gray then reminisces about a therapy in which he writes his therapist a check every week in a different colored Crayon...
...businesses went through a certain amount of paranoia," Hoffman said...
This long opening riff is fine and engaging, comparable to the best passages -- fictional or otherwise -- that Mailer has ever written. Harry's narrative sails forward on a river of Scotch, melodrama, sex, paranoia and typically Mailerian metaphysics (Harry knows why his waitress-girlfriend was so pleasant to him the first time she worked his table: "She saw money coming in all kinds of emotional flavors. It took happy money to buy a dependable appliance"). At the end of all these pyrotechnical effects, which include a persuasively real ghost in Harry's basement, the hero has achieved some pressing problems...
...accomplishments are little known outside Richmond. What has made national news is Wilder's perpetual feud with Sen. Charles S. Robb. Wilder's waning poll ratings show that many Virginians are beginning to wonder whether he's spending his time solving the state's problems or sulking in political paranoia...
...which is located across the street from the Chelsea Hotel in downtown Manhattan. About 8:30 a.m. every workday, Hall's chauffeur-driven Oldsmobile (he buys American and uses a cellular phone) pulls up to the curb in front of the eight-story brownstone, where staff members, still harboring paranoia left over from the days when the FBI tapped their lines and read their mail, answer the phone "4994" and dispatch envelopes without the party's name. Once in the building, Hall, a four-time presidential candidate, climbs into a creaky elevator for the slow ride to the top floor...