Word: paranoia
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...eerieness of the final slaughter is heightened not only by its verisimilitude, but by the movie's one extraordinary performance. A young actor named Powers Boothe captures all the paranoia, sexual magnetism, hysteria, rage and even intelligence of "Dad" Jim Jones. His final incantations to the dyingdelivered in a feverish but strangely disembodied voicecreate a more deathly mood than all the corpses piling up onscreen. If Writer Tidyman had only matched Boothe's talent with a complexly written role, Guyana Tragedy would be as notable as drama as it is as ratings gambit...
...arrival of new neighbors is likely to brush even the most stable of home owners with a tinge of paranoia. Property values are at stake, after all, not to mention the territorial imperative. Will the newcomers possess large marauding dogs or, worse, teen-age children? Will they fill up their front yard with rusting automobiles, set up a permanent garage sale in their driveway, sell cosmetics or encyclopedias door to door, deal hard drugs, paint their house pink, fire pistols randomly at passing cars and pedestrians . . . ? Such fears usually remain unrealized, but they still retain the power to induce night...
...this seriously will find everything twice as senseless as before. What Berger has produced is a tour de force, his most successfully sustained comic narrative since Little Big Man (1964). Like the best black humor of the 1960s, Neighbors offers a version of reality skewed just enough to give paranoia a good name. - Paul Gray
Whether through direct rationing by the government or indirect conservation in the marketplace, our next president must be prepared to remove the fetters oil imports place on our domestic and foreign policies. Through conservation, he can do so with less loss of life, less paranoia, and less danger of nuclear holocaust than through a self-destructive call to the Cold War colors...
...more vulnerable than the U.S.; the Soviet Union is hundreds, not thousands, of miles away. The French also have an economic stake in détente: last year trade between the two nations amounted to $3.7 billion. Yet too often France's search for independence translates as paranoia about seeming to take orders from Washington...