Word: paranoia
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...several historians at Columbia and Harvard have noted over the past years--before Gorbachev's rise became apparent--this decade offers major opportunities for change in U.S. Soviet relations because for the first time the Soviet leadership is not stained by the hyper-paranoia of the Stalin period...
...Stewart offers profuse assurance that he has no evidence to link the Krogers, but one must be sure, mustn't one? Barbara, despite her deep reservations about the spy business, cannot summon the courage to oppose the self-assured Stewart. She becomes sucked into the labyrinth of espionage-age paranoia; lying to her daughter, to her best friend, and even at times to herself. Barbara's life becomes invaded by suspicion the way her house is invaded by plainesclotheswomen...
...script of Pack of Lies had been made into a film, the results might have been different. The tension, paranoia, and anguish inadequately present in the text could have been drawn out and accentuated by a talented film director. Clifford Williams, the luckless captain of this production, can do no more than block the actors and leave them to themselves...
...generation needs to be able to communicate with the understand the Soviets in order to lessen the paranoia which arrounds them," Jones said...
...remembered scenes with his dying father, his doting scold of a mother, his colleagues in fair and foul weather, his bitter first wife and Maggie, love conquers nothing but the lover. It drains him, proves him inadequate, drives him toward madness. Suffocated by Maggie's whims and paranoia, Quentin cannot feel even that signal emotion of the nice guy: guilt. He can only expel his last vestige of feeling when she pleads, "Just love me. And do what I tell ya." What more - or less - does anyone want...