Word: paranoia
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...Moynihan!" Now Scheer, who as an Institute of Politics guest at Harvard led the famous demonstration which kept Robert MacNamara captive for hours, is livid. The phone falls. "You don't believe me? Read the interview again. He's a return to the politics of the fifties, the paranoia of the Cold War, enemies everywhere, too much dissent. I know he believes that there's too much dissent. Read...
...purchaser, it turned out, was the rich, mysterious Church of Scientology, an international cult that for two decades has specialized in a unique form of psychological counseling, often against hysterical opposition. Scientology, in turn, has tended toward defensiveness bordering on paranoia, filing scores of libel suits on the slightest provocation. In February, the Church of Scientology sued Mayor Cazares, then threatened the Clearwater Sun, the St. Petersburg Times and radio station WDCL. "We are not a turn-the-other-cheek religion," Spokesman Arthur Maren told TIME Correspondent David Beckwith...
...they settled on was Alan Pakula, who had just come off another study in American political paranoia. The Parallax View, but whose work on Klute was what had really impressed both actors. They felt he had done an excellent job in building by visual means menace and tension into a script that had lacked those qualities. "If our project was to succeed, we'd need the same kind of tension," Hoffman remembers thinking. He adds: "Bob liked him because he felt he wouldn't jump on a liberal bandwagon. Redford saw the film as a detective story...
There are valid scientific objections to Martin's portrayal of possession. Skeptics note that in the past, both physical and mental diseases have been mis-diagnosed as demonic possession; these range from psychiatric disorders like paranoia and schizophrenia to diseases which affect the nervous system. Parapsychologists working with ESP, telekinesis and other psychic phenomena can also raise questions about the demonic origins of the possessed individual's reputed ability to mentally hurl objects around and read minds. Martin tries to deal with this criticism; one of the exorcists challenges a group of parapsychologists dabbling in astral travel and reincarnation...
...veneer of little Russians, reticent to speak freely and openly with people we didn't know well...trust became reserved, finally, only for the family." In an interview last month in America, Schecter described this element of secrecy as "something you accept. It's not a real extreme paranoia, but it becomes an accepted element in your life. It changes you, because you become much more closed and protective. It's kind of scary." This scary alteration Schecter observed in his family's behavior ultimately reduced their stay in Moscow to only an arms-length experience of Russian life...