Word: berserk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stuck with the show, not so much out of interest as sheer curiosity. Brother shot illegitimate brother, children stabbed wild-eyed parents and family pets went berserk in a mad freakshow frolic before my very eyes. Forget Barnum & Bailey, I thought, southern Florida is where it's at: a world where suspects get "Mirandized" and the camera never stops rolling, even when characters appear wounded or in various states of undress...
...just went berserk," said James Kim, the 29-year-old employee on duty at the time of the incident. "He came in [and was] in a bad mood, and he let everything...
...that time his T cells had dropped to 201. This is the stage at which AIDS starts to behave like an abusive mate. It simmers alongside you in bed. It sits quietly at your table. And from time to time it goes berserk, pushes you into a corner and makes a fist. "I was starting," says Schwartz, "to accept the possibility of something catastrophic...
...killer was on the loose, and it had Lindagail Dixon, 42, of Spokane, Washington, squarely in its sights. It was her own immune system, which had gone berserk, attacking the joints in her body and crippling her so badly that she often had to use a wheelchair. Left unchecked, Dixon's disorder, rheumatoid arthritis, might have shortened her life 10 to 15 years. But last summer her doctor placed her on experimental therapy that actually wrestled her rogue immune system back into line. "I can go jogging again. I can work 10 to 12 hours on my feet," says...
There are sentimental reasons too to keep them around. We go back a long way--bears and humans. The word berserk, for example, means "dressed in a bearskin" and comes from the ancient Scandinavian warrior custom of running around and pretending to be one. Paleolithic Europeans may have worshipped bears; at least a cavern discovered last year in southern France featured a bear skull, "placed on a large rock set in the middle of a gallery against a backdrop of bear paintings." Besides, wouldn't it be kind of sad if the only vestige of Ursus horribilis were some...