Word: berserkers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days of madness and murder also left some 20,000 Sikhs crowded into refugee camps. Suddenly a nation that had thought of Indira as its mother seemed rudderless and orphaned. "Over the years, Madame kept us in check," said a senior Indian journalist. "Once she is gone, we go berserk...
...still true, judging from the congenially berserk glad rags for men and women that he showed in Paris last week. Extremely deft, marketable clothing was mixed in with deliberately parodistic fantasies. There were gauzy see-through gossamers over checked bikini briefs for men; hiya-big-boy bathing suits for women that transform breasts into medium-range ballistic missiles; and sarongs for everyone. But there were also roomy, temperate suits for both sexes, and a selection of loungewear and splendor-in-the-grass sunsuits that managed to be forthrightly sexy without turning coy. It was shrewd and prototypical Gaultier; in short...
...only go so low. It's got to be between those poles. That fact accounts for the similarities between today and those years." The intervening period--the eventful '60s--offered "too much emancipation and too few rules; you get tremendously open experiences. It's very easy to go berserk--to use drugs, to do your own thing. "We can't run society on that silly slogan," he says...
...fallout has started, so has the industry infighting. Byte Ad Sales Manager Peter Huestis sent out hundreds of letters proclaiming that Lydon's Personal Computing had failed to meet its promised circulation increases. Lydon rebutted that Byte had "gone berserk...
...there was a fine page of anecdotes about all the eccentrics who had passed through the newsroom since the days when Ben Hecht and Charlie MacArthur were working on that wonderful play. Editorial-Page Editor Charles Roper, who compiled the memoir, recalled that someone went berserk in the composing room one day and the police had to be summoned. The cops got off on the wrong floor, confronted the nearest writer, Bob Johnson, and said, "We understand you have a crazy man up here." Johnson waved an arm about the room and said, "Take your pick...