Word: berserks
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...anger and pain in a thousand ways. So you give the audience a strange brain (a devil-possessor)--lobotomize 'em. Or you carry them to a strange environment (perhaps trash the one you've got and see how they run)--show 'em anything can happen. This insertion of the berserk is perceived as brutal realism...
...massive investigation had turned up only one man who "had the decency to try to do something" about My Lai-a helicopter pilot named Hugh Thompson, who landed during the battle, tried to stop the killing and actually evacuated some wounded civilians to get them away from his berserk compatriots. "That man's the hero," Peers said...
...seat theater devoted to country rock. The city now has 65 resident bands; they all work regularly, since Austin's 28 clubs and bars often hire as many as three bands a weekend. Says Townsend Miller, country-music columnist of the Austin American-Statesman: "Austin is country gone berserk." The music is country picking and basic bluegrass, leavened with rock and lightly glazed with acid...
...final touch of humor sneaks through again, almost perversely, at the end. Tunin goes berserk when he finds he's been betrayed, but can only manage a ludicrous escape attempt, first sprawling ignominiously on the cobblestones and then falling flat on his face on a table loaded with cabbages...
Last Tango and Streetcar. Remember what Woody Allen looked like after the Orgasmatron went berserk in Sleeper? This double bill still makes me shake my head and grope for a drink...