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...year 2003 introduced a new phrase to the cultural vocabulary: flash mob, an instant gathering of people, organized on the Internet, who receive an e-mail or cell-phone message, show up en masse at a designated spot, perform some absurd act (quack like ducks, bang their shoes on the pavement) and then disperse...
Mainstream culture today is like a flash mob. Those who are part of it know they're part of it, even if it doesn't congregate as often as it did back when 30 million people would watch a network show on a typical night. Every so often, we get the call--we gather for Joe Millionaire or buy that Harry Potter book. Then, show over, book read, we scatter: back to VH1 or our Scarface DVDS or our scrapbooking chat rooms...
...Spontini's La Vestale on a La Scala opening night. For a while Corelli's extracurricular antics?he punched a spectator he thought had insulted him, stabbed basso Boris Christoff with a stage sword?drew attention away from his sizable gifts as a singer ... In Italy bobby-soxers periodically mob him at the stage door, and there is every evidence that he may do for tenors what Ezio Pinza did for bassos. Says he: 'I attract mostly young, very beautiful girls...
...Both moves signal the army is dictating Papua policy, says Sidney Jones, head of the Jakarta office of the International Crisis Group. A cycle of tit-for-tat violence may have begun: on Dec. 1, a Papuan mob stabbed to death an Indonesian soldier in apparent retaliation for the killing last month of at least 10 alleged members of the Free Papua Movement. Such incidents will make any crackdown more severe, says Jones: "The military see Papua as a threat to Indonesia's territorial integrity. They intend to crush the autonomy movement...
...Gayoom has spread "fear" across the islands with a "culture of torture and abuse." On Sept. 19 guards at Maafushi beat to death inmate Hassan Eevan Naseem, a convicted drug abuser, sparking a riot in which three prisoners were shot dead. After Naseem's funeral the next day, a mob of hundreds rampaged through Mal?, torching and ransacking courts, election offices, police stations and other symbols of the regime...