Word: berserker
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...political-science department at Toronto's York University: "People who used to be reasonable liberals have been pushed far out to the right or to the left, so you now have one group that wants to overthrow the system and another that is sickeningly reactionary. People are going berserk...
...this is conveyed in Alice, plus something more. Through puns and transpositions of literal and metaphorical imagery, Carroll transformed English into a kind of hallucinatory jabberwocky. Language goes berserk; it refuses to associate with reality. There are moments in Alice when all words seem to have dropped, like leaves, off the tree of meaning, and to be swirling around in gusts of gibberish. This provides one of the closest approximations to going insane that has ever been rendered on a public stage...
There is no doubting that Marinaro has been able to keep his mind on football in Ithaca. As a sophomore last year, he was barely edged by Heisman Trophy winner Steve Owen for the national rushing title when Owen went berserk in Oklahoma's final game...
...rest of the panel. It was clear that the minority was not intimidated. Charles Keating Jr., the only Nixon appointee on the commission-the rest, as the Administration had stressed, were named by Lyndon Johnson-branded the report "a declaration of moral bankruptcy," "the epitome of government-gone-berserk," and "a travesty preordained by the . . . prejudice of its chairman...
...Aime, is precisely about that dislocation. A man enters a time-machine which looks like a high-school biology model of the human brain: scientists have told him that he will re-live exactly one minute of his life, at a point exactly a year ago. The machine goes berserk, and what follows is a visual montage of the man's past. Time barriers are simply not observed, and jumps from one sequence to the next follow a pattern which dimly emerges as the film proceeds...