Word: schizoids
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...highest point in 41 years and bankruptcies to the worst level in half a century. And rarely, if ever, have the signs been so confusing. The forecasters who try to figure out the prospects for jobs, prices, production and incomes are in the position of a motorist approaching a schizoid traffic light that is flashing green, amber and red signals all at once...
...Wall Street brings a rise in the price of stocks and bonds. But this year has been different, leaving brokers and analysts totally befuddled as to whether the stock market might at any minute begin climbing to new highs or slumping to new lows. Last week the rattled and schizoid market seemed to be trying to do both. It was a nerve-testing five days of reversals and price swings that first stirred and then frustrated investor hopes for the market's much anticipated summertime rebound...
...Taxi characters were so much like us, and so good at it. The Sunshine Cab Co. was a place to work in that became a place to live in. And your co-workers became your friends: Alex the off-duty rabbi, and sweet dim Tony, and Latka the gentle schizoid. And Reverend Jim, phoning in his blissed-out wisdom from Planet X. And Elaine, the only woman, who desperately wanted to be somewhere else but couldn't leave the place she knew as home...
...Post is a schizoid newspaper-solid in its reporting of national and international affairs, flashy in feature sections where writers are encouraged to stretch their imaginations. The two irreconcilable sides of the paper become one in the head of its debonair and aggressive editor Ben Bradlee. Like John McEnroe on a tennis court, Bradlee loses his playing edge when he can't stir things...
Because Woody Allen, like Fellini, has an acute sense of the absurd, he can see as much humor in his own splintered isolation as he can in the clumsy attempts of outsiders to break into the cage, to crash the cocktail party inside his head. Stardust Memories is a schizoid invitation to that party. The card says: COME ONE, COME ALL. BRING YOUR OWN BOOS. And in a fine hand at the bottom you can read: TRESPASSERS WILL BE SHOT...