Word: paranoia
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...bravery and originality in the bluntness of these movies. And in + their avoidance of melodramatic hype and improbably heartening resolutions, there are lessons American movies might learn. Still, one retreats with relief to the accustomed elegances of a well-made film like The Whistle Blower. To be sure, the paranoia that long ago settled damply around our spy dramas seems to have drifted eastward to infect Writer Julian Bond and Director Simon Langton. Their story has the British espionage establishment protecting a highly placed mole by murdering innocent, clerkish underlings in an attempt to convince its American allies that...
...ambiguous -- Hollywood face. Fine, grant the premise. But if you do, you are confirming that what we are dealing with is not a political but a cultural, perhaps an anthropological phenomenon. Those who think Olliemania signifies a nation rising to Mussolini (or Nathan Hale) are apt to see their paranoia (or exaltation) disappointed...
...verdict in the Goetz case does present an example of how subtle racism--the kind that is captured in statistical surveys--can play itself out in a tangible way. When courts consider the racially-linked paranoia of a crime victim, race becomes an issue. When courts indulge this paranoia, the verdict has aspects of race...
...sides share a discomfiting agreement that a broad view of the right to self-defense is necessary. One side says vigilantism is cvommon sense, the other says its only permissible so long as it isn't allowed for whites only. Both sides seem unfortunately willing to give into the paranoia over crime, and to allow private citizens to take on a quasi-police role...
...government responded to Diaz's charges by issuing a statement that he was "suffering from a serious state of paranoia." While Noriega made no move to arrest his former colleague, President Eric Arturo Delvalle blamed the colonel and unidentified "external forces" for the rioting. Officials in Panama City have recently charged that U.S. opponents of the 1979 Panama Canal treaties are trying to undermine the government...