Word: berserk
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...humor," growled Defense Minister Moshe Dayan. Three months ago an English-language lampoon called Lillit, published by Hebrew University students, suddenly lost both circulation and government financial support. The magazine had carried the comic-strip adventures of a muscular "SuperGolda"; her principal adversary was a Tel Aviv intellectual driven berserk by police corruption, religious fanaticism, militarism, pollution, inflation and social inequality. Israel's state-run television network last January introduced a show called Not Everything Is Overlooked, which mixed music and political satire. After seeing the show, Golda Meir announced in stern Victorian tones: "I am not amused...
...abduction of a German plane that forced the release of Arab terrorists (see THE WORLD). In a season of ever more daring and dangerous aerial piracy, the Houston affair was perhaps the most bizarre to date. The leader of the hijackers was Charles Tuller, 48, a federal bureaucrat gone berserk. Going along for the ride were his two sons, Bryce, 19, and Jonathan, 18, and a friend of theirs, William Graham, 18. Only the week before, Tuller & Sons and Graham, two of them posing as telephone repairmen, had entered a bank in Arlington, Va., and tried to hold...
would you give in, or go berserk...
...Clockwork Orange, based on the Anthony Burgess novel, is a merciless, demoniac satire in the future imperfect. It posits a world somehow gone berserk, in which there are no real alternatives, only degrees of madness. Kubrick makes the whole thing (as he did in Dr. Strangelove) chillingly and often hilariously believable. Alex, so contemptuously in control, soon becomes a victim of his own lunatic society...
...Dice Man is a blackly comic amusement park of a book, replete with vertiginous roller coaster rides of the spirit, feverish omnisexual trips through the tunnel of love, and crazy images reflected in the distorting fun-house mirrors of the mind. The master and slave of this berserk carnival is a psychiatrist named Luke Rhinehart, after the pseudonymous author, whose real name is George Cockcroft. Cockcroft took the hero's name as his pen name "because the book is in part autobiographical and I wanted to force the reader to take the book more seriously than he would a novel...