Word: berserkers
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...street, in one of the most brutal campaigns I've ever seen. The problem was that nobody knew who the rebels were. Many of them had sneaked into the city unarmed, by joining refugee columns. Then they'd collected weapons that had been stashed in Freetown and simply went berserk. At a certain point the ECOMOG forces appeared to be ready to kill any teenage boys they found on the street, suspecting they might be rebels. ECOMOG essentially demolished the city block by block, because the rebels were everywhere. It was hand-to-hand fighting, and both sides were taking...
...late 10th century, yet they were not irreligious. Like the ancient Greeks and Romans, they worshiped a pantheon of deities, three of whom--Odin, Thor and Freya--we recall every week, as Wednesday, Thursday and Friday were named after them. (Other Norse words that endure in modern English: berserk and starboard...
...admirable that Hamid maintains measured prose and restraint--it would have been easy, especially in the more dramatic scenes and the chaotic later chapters, to let the narrative go berserk. Instead we get to watch lunacy come in careful and slow streams, and the effect is wonderful. None of the prose is brilliant, though it is never dull...
...another way, the guy was nuts, and Herzog had to be a bit eccentric to keep casting him; the five films they made together turned their friendship into a holy war. Yet the combustion produced amazing adventures: Aguirre, the Wrath of God, in which Kinski goes berserk in the Peruvian rain forest, and Nosferatu the Vampire, with the actor as a pathetic, rodentoid Dracula. This documentary, a gallivanting time trip through a bolder film era, is Herzog's final collaboration with Kinski: an act of love and exorcism...
Then comes the highlight of the evening--and Robert's best chance to scare his son straight. An officer in a yellow inmate outfit and red helmet and pads begins shouting in cell 3C06, as if he's a convict gone berserk. On cue, four officers in riot gear march to the door of the cell and shout, "Ready and stop!", before one unleashes a burst of pepper spray. Then they rush in, pinning the prisoner to the wall, handcuffing and evacuating...