Word: paranoia
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Leyner's satire extends to modern life and stereotypical Jewish angst. "Young Bergdorf Goodman Browr, " his adaption of Nathanial Hawthorne's dark masterpiece, satirizes paranoia apropos to Jewish-extraterrestrial conspiracies, Six Degrees of Separation, and the gauntlet to be run when trying to escape those downright annoying perfume sales-woman at the department store who insist that you sample their scents: "We've daubed your wrists, your lower arms, your chest, your stomach, your ankles, calves, knees...Let's see...Hey, if you don't mind, how about the upper portion of your buttocks...
...paranoia is so deep," says Jay Printz, sheriff of Ravalli County, Montana, another hotbed of militia activity. "I just hope it doesn't deteriorate into armed confrontations." Others, argue that the new antifederalists are a mostly responsible lot. "These aren't survivalist wackos," says John Howard, president of the Individual Rights Foundation. "A lot of them are prominent people in their communities who do believe the Federal Government has gone too far." Even as the Westerners fight for local control, they are struggling just as hard to retain the huge federal grazing, farming, irrigation and mining subsidies that the Clinton...
...Sheldon's popularity declined, his paranoia and racist sentiment grew, Sample says...
...uproar then-it was cacophonous enough last week-over the cut Louganis received when he hit his head on the springboard during the preliminaries. Carrying his teddy bear with a matching bandage to and from the pool might not have played quite so well, or assuaged the AIDS paranoia of the time...
...thugs, who are thugs' thugs, do not use guns. They smash and stab with clubs and knives. But they are not alone, even the milque-toast David becomes barbaric, sawing up bodies with mad concentration. David's dramatic character change signals the flatmates' descent into a predictable spiral of paranoia...