At the time, Massachusetts and the whole nation were gripped by tales of child sexual abuse, and the tiny witnesses in the Amirault case offered details that were lurid and bizarre: assaults by clowns, tortured animals, children tied naked to trees.
For both films Dalí and Buñuel trawled their subconscious minds to come up with bizarre sequences that assault bourgeois values and sexual oppression while making no logical sense, and they were acclaimed by the leading arbiters of surrealism as the first authentic surrealist films.
"As bizarre as the Louima assault was, this is even more bizarre," said Alan Vinegrad, the lead federal prosecutor in the Louima case.
Writing on Salon at the beginning of this year, Katie Roiphe picked up on this "subtle fall from fashion" and talked engagingly about what she views as "the bizarre and misguided critical assault on [his] reputation".
Ex-members, including Rinder and other top officials who told their stories to the St. Petersburg Times in 2009, have accused him of physical assaults and bizarre behavior — all of which he and the church deny.
The confession was all the more extraordinary for the seemingly bizarre circumstances of the alleged assault.
It was a bizarre incident that led to assault charges against him, followed by a guilty plea and a suspended prison sentence.
Veteran defender Michael Johnson faces a nervous wait after being charged by police with assault over a bizarre incident that occurred in a kebab shop in November.
The nightmare she creates for herself is one of the most disturbing things I have ever seen in the cinema: the way scenes will end with bizarre hallucinations and jolts; the "assault" scene played out to the amplified ticking clock; the sudden, giant cracks she imagines on switching on a light – they always creep me out with a thoroughness that run-of-the-mill horror movies never achieve.
The second was the claim brought for damages against the conspirators, including "a bizarre claim by the president for assault because he feared for his life".
