Word: berserk
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Because when these rich guys get into office, we find they're disastrous as political leaders. They're so accustomed to working in hierarchical, top-down organizations -- where they can fire anyone who doesn't jump high enough -- they go berserk with frustration when nobody jumps at all. You can get elected Governor, but you can't fire the legislature, or even the Egg Marketing Advisory Board. Our last Big Rich Governor was Bill Clements, '87 to '91, who, when he tried to learn Spanish, inspired the observation, "Good, now he'll be bi-ignorant...
...course, throughout all of this, the grief-stricken cry from the third floor of Weld reminded all of the uncaring eye of statistics. The berserk first-year was dragged off in a straight-jacket, most likely only to return in the fall to find himself with all kinds of floaters in his common room (you know, on account of some dingbat explanation like fewer juniors taking the semester off due to the recession...
...laundering them. In March 1990, Saccoccia and an aide delivered to a bank $53,000 packaged in 53 bundles. The currency was tested by a cocaine-sniffing German shepherd named Basko, which promptly went "bonkers," says an agent. A day later, another bank received a Saccoccia deposit. Basko went berserk again. And again and again, in bank after bank...
Marius was kidding, of course. But you see what I'm driving at. America, a nation that tolerates Don King, Oliver North and the people responsible for the S&L crisis, goes berserk over plagiarism. Embezzlement damages careers; plagiarism destroys them...
...Mahalia Jackson spiritual. Jungle Fever is no less brazen -- or assured. A righteous man shoots his deranged son, and the man's wife unleashes a scream that blends with the gospel wail of . . . Mahalia Jackson. Here Jungle Fever ascends fearlessly into the delirium of high Hollywood melodrama: it's berserk Sirk...