Word: amok
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cambridgeport resident, who first won election to the council in 1970 and lost--after serving four terms--by only about 100 votes, was a member of the council when rent control was first adopted. He says now that the system has run amok since he voted for its adoption...
...worse kinds of blackguards and hucksters and promoters. If there was anything good about the Confederacy, he said, it was an old ethos, which, though mired in the horrors of the mid nineteenth-century South, had at least bothered to aspire to something while in the North industrialization ran amok. After the Civil War, the North took up the ideal of the gentleman planter for a while, and the legend of Lee--a fundamentally Northern myth--was born in cities full of coal and smoke. But the North was never serious about it. They took it up for fun. They...
...Wolfe writes, "the most exquisite form of torture imaginable would have been to have found yourself locked inside a Seaboard railroad roomette just north of Jacksonville on the Miami-to-New York run with the radiator sizzling in an amok, red-mad psychotic overboil and George McGovern sitting beside you, telling you his philosophy of government." Boom! "In the late seventies there was the bottle of Perrier, a French soda water. The fashionable American expense-account lunch drink became lighter and lighter, but not cheaper and cheaper. The soda water sold for $2.50 a glass in Manhattan restaurants...
Naked Lunch exploded like a lanced boil on the American literary scene in 1959. The novel, a farrago of discontinuous fragments, takes the reader on a graphic tour of the hellish interstices of a junkie's mind, the fantasies of castration and necrophilia and technology gone amok. The updated Gothicism, hip drugginess and black humor of Naked Lunch established Burroughs' audience, composed mostly of young people. Norman Mailer compared reading Burroughs to "being in a room where three radios, two television sets, stereo hi-fi, a pornographic movie, and two automatic dishwashers are working at once." John Clellon Holmes called...