Word: berserk
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...between Jones and his self-declared idol, Father Divine. Sun Myung Moon also comes to mind; but somehow the connection to more mainstream evangelists--the Billy Grahams and Oral Roberts of the world--does not seem so far off. We recoil from the terrible spectacle of California cults gone berserk, but manage to forget their antecedents, presumably because the more conventional, if hardly more genuine, religious-business organizations don't break the laws of propriety in such flamboyant ways...
...mishandling of the relationship between Corky and Fats limits the development of any real tension. It's obvious much too early that Corky is a split personality -- the film's first scene establishes the split when, after meekly trying to win over an inattentive audience, Corky suddenly goes berserk and showers them with abuse. His refusal to undergo the medical exam practically signals that "this man is insane...
...went on television Tuesday night, Oct. 24, to announce his Stage II anti-inflation program. He not only proclaimed wage-price guidelines but also pledged to slash the U.S. budget deficit further and ease the inflationary burden of Government regulation on business. Far from steadying, the financial markets went berserk with the wildest selling spree yet, obviously because investors and speculators judged the policy to be not strong enough. The U.S. stock market tumbled into a deepening nosedive that carried the Dow industrials down 105 points in the twelve trading days before last Wednesday. Gold shot...
...year sentence, which provokes Billy to deliver an ugly tirade against the Turkish people and nation during his day in court. This marks a new phase, the hardening of Billy Hayes if you will. Billy joins Jimmy Booth in his latest escape plans, Billy goes berserk and mutilates the lifeless body of Rifki (a scene that ranks up there with the most wanton exercises of filmed violence marking Jaws and The French Connection), and he winds up in the ward for the criminally insane. Like some Hieronymus Bosch painting suddenly come to life, the ward makes the rest of Sagmalcilar...
Agababian added, "This was obviously the action of a berserk person, a sick mind. It had no relation to service at the Coop...