Word: paranoia
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...climbed the staircase, an inexplicable feeling of paranoia gripped me. With this nervousness reaching a peak, I walked through a large door at the end of the stairs and found myself face-to-face with a grandmotherly woman. Her gray hair carefully set, she had a kind, unwrinkled face. A badge on her chest proclaimed, "Sister Wood." Warmly grasping my hand, she told me how glad...
...China: Vance and Brzezinski are both committed to the eventual normalization of relations between the U.S. and China, but they disagree over how that card should be played. Vance is sensitive to Soviet paranoia about Sino-American "encirclement" and not eager to exacerbate the Kremlin's fears at this time. Brzezinski sees the Peking connection as an opportunity to keep the Russians off balance. Partly for this reason, he is hoping to visit Peking later this year...
...internecine warfare, the only possible winners are local criminals, including the shadowy Dixie Mafia. Sheriff Sabo, for his part, admits to a mild case of paranoia. "I spend more time looking over my shoulder than I do peering in front of me," he says softly. "Maybe 1 should apply for an LEAA grant to buy a device that detects the devices they're buying with I.EAA grants...
There is another analogy to Hitchcock. In entertainment after entertainment he has shown, through his spies and criminals, how pervasive evil is in the world, how it can reach out and touch the most innocent places and people and make real the paranoia that so many people seem to feel. The Fury invites the audience to take pleasure in the revenge of those who are exceptional, in their final, violent turning against the straight world. One suspects that telepathic characters are artist-figures to De Palma, that conceivably, in his dealings with Hollywood producers, he has wished on occasion...
Both sides have discovered that microwaves influence nervous system path-ways and consequently break down human judgment. American and Soviet military vessels are often equipped with microwave beams with which they can zap each other. The battle continues on land. Much of the national security paranoia in this country surrounding the release of microwave discoveries may be due to the fact that the Soviets beat us to the punch. Brodeur points out that the Kremlin was beaming microwaves on the U.S. Embassy in Moscow long before U.S. intelligence officials thought of harnessing microwaves and beaming them in the opposite direction...