Word: berserk
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Around the time of the New York Woman launch, her husband of 17 years, Malcolm Carter, announced he was gay. "Everything inside me felt berserk," she writes. "Blown to pieces. I was gasping for breath, swimming in air. I had crazy thoughts: I'll call my mother, she'll talk him out of this...
...banged out the song; and he struck a wooden match and he set the piano aflame, and his hands, like the hands of a madman, did not quit the blazing keys, but kept pounding, until all became unknown tongues and holiness and fire, and the kids went utterly, magically berserk with the frenzy of it all; and Jerry Lee stalked backstage, stinking of gasoline and wrath, and he said to Chuck Berry, real calm, as the sound of kids going crazy and stamping and yelling shook the walls; he said, 'Follow that, nigger...
...Yoder had his second terrible fight with a woman he had loved. Monumentally drunk, he argued with Shirley about whether a man who baby-sat was molesting the children. "I went berserk and...hit my ex-wife in the head with a table leg," he later wrote. Shirley says she had nine stitches. Yoder pleaded guilty and went to prison, where a psychiatrist examined him. The doctor said Yoder was hostile and negative but didn't meet the standard for involuntary hospitalization. He wasn't a danger, the doctor wrote, and there was "no indication of acute psychopathology...
...most talented DJs in Boston never have the chance to play in a public setting.” While the crowds at these weeklies are often small and unpredictable, the shows are usually worth more than the dirt-cheap cover and can be a less intimidating, if more berserk, way to enter the world of techno...
...cresting another ridge, dodging stray camels and shrubs, I glimpse an endless sea of pristine dunes to pulverize. Even after I'm beckoned in and take off my helmet, I can't swallow my grin. Perera explains I'm merely the latest in a long line to go buggy berserk. "Five years ago, nobody ever thought of Dubai as an adventure sports location," he says. "Now there are over 100 companies...