Word: herded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high on cocaine, pills and a dash of angel dust, but knows his business. "Seven-Up best today, man. They starting to pass it out on Fourth and D." They walk over and join the waiting crowd as pistol-packing guards begin to herd groups often into an abandoned building. For two hours, the line moves slowly up three flights of broken stairs. There is the stench of urine. Flickering candles light the way. The guards order the buyers to face the wall so that they cannot see the delivery. "Have your money ready!" one yells. "No ones. Only fives...
WHILE REPORTERS from society pages nationwide, slavering at a whiff of Ivy League mystique, joined the herd of pompous preps pounding up the steps of the Hasty Pudding in an uncritical, intoxicated rush to see a $180,000 transvesitite musical replete with threepenny puns, a couple of mavericks saw a good show over at the Law School. North by North Middle, a musical comedy/suspense thriller presented by the Harvard Law School Drama Society, has jokes that are funny, good music with singing that you can hear, and a plot...
...another scene, one of the best in the series, black-costumed Nazi "special-action squads" herd dozens of Russian Jews-played, of course, by the all-purpose Yugoslavs-into a mammoth grave, where they are to be shot. As the cameras started to roll, the peasants began to wail. "No one told them to," says Steele, "and you couldn't have dreamt of such a sound. It was just devastating, strange and keening, like the saddest tone in history. The Yugoslavs hate the Germans, and maybe something surfaced from a collective unconscious...
...deep snows drove more than 500 hungry moose out of Alaska's Chugach Mountains and into Anchorage to forage for food. Normally shy creatures, moose tend to get ornery when hungry and are not readily moved by either cold reason or warm talk. At the hospital, a herd of seven moose, ranging in size from 350-lb. calves to half-ton adults, adopted the parking lot as their winter home. There they munched contentedly on recently planted shrubs; occasionally they charged at cars and employees. Hunting laws prevent forceful dealing with the problem...
Weiner, like the rest of the great herd of American media commentators behind which he straggles, jumbles identities and affiliations, governments and peoples with little regard for precision. Among the distinctions he fails to keep before him as he writes are those between Jews and Zionists, Jews and Israelis, Israelis and their government, and finally, enemies of Israel and anti-Semites...