Word: berserk
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...laps against the corners of this classic, covering like the South Seas (where a bored Rita Hayworth and her brilliant, embittered husband spend their money) what O'Hara himself calls the carnivorous sharks below. Shark fights serve as metaphor for the cynical, sordid goings' on between the lawyer, his berserk business partner and the aloof, gorgeous Hayworth. Welles, despite himself, gets caught up in the carnage, dragged in by unrequited adoration for Hayworth, a nose for adventure, a soul filled with romanticism and nothing particularly better to do. The denouement of the murder mystery is as subtle and complex...
...spare? Then you could meet Liz Taylor's asking price for a 69.42-carat, pear-shaped diamond that Richard Burton paid less than half as much to buy for her nine years ago. That is one of the more modest price increases in a market that has gone berserk, especially at the wholesale level. Uncut stones, particularly those less than one carat, have in many cases doubled in price just in the past 18 months...
Zevon is about equal parts berserk satirist and strung-out romantic. He can write desolating love songs with racked refrains like, "We made mad love/ Shadow love/ Random love/ And abandoned love...
...Kerling capitalized on a two on one break with Nethery skating past defenseman Jack Hughes and then beating Hynes with the shot. Bang. At 13:55 Cornell's George Corneil slipped a rebound past Hynes and it was all tied up. The Cornell fans went absolutely berserk...
...tensions between the men build as time passes. When Teach brandishes a revolver, the audience feels he must surely use it, but this is a bit of deceptive foreshadowing. Instead, Teach goes berserk, provoked by Bobby's apparent lies. He brains the poor kid with a lamp and then proceeds to trash the set in a fine display of uncontrolled rage. This moment of Brando-esque pique is genuinely frightening, but somewhat inexplicable. Just as suddenly as he began, Teach stops, becoming apologetic. With all his bravado dissipated, he becomes pitiful...but why? The motivations remain cloudy...