Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...approaching! The spirit of defiance is spreading!"), he thought it could be checked by the wisdom of Louis XVI-and by cutting laborers' wages to remove the temptation to idleness. But his vignettes of violent street scenes and underworld characters develop into a seething panorama of the revolutionary mob, culminating inevitably in massacres in the streets and prisons, and finally in the Reign of Terror. As for Restif himself, he was several times in danger from the Terror, but made an abject declaration for the party of Robespierre and survived to become a minor police official under Napoleon...
...because of the ruthless way he once ran Park's Central Intelligence Agency and because he has been instrumental in the controversial negotiations with Japan. Kim is fond of saying, "I am nothing but a shadow of the President." Would the man who casts the shadow be the mob's next victim...
...Loeb's commencement production of Julius Caesar is, as Brutus might say, indeed ambitious. Director Daniel Seltzer parades a huge cast (playing eighty parts) across the cavernous main stage, dresses them in sumptuous costumes, mixes them together in mob scenes and battles, and supplements it all with a broad range of lighting and sound effects. But if his effort is ambitious, the result is at best uneven; Seltzer's Caesar is at times taut, at times grotesque, most often flat...
...They roar disapproval run around in confusion, roar approval, fidget and scratch as Antony continues and like well-trained beasts roar again. When Antony whips out Caesar's blood-stained toga, which looks for all the world as it it's been smeared with strawberry ripple ice-cream, the mob gives its practiced gasp, but the audience, instead of being awestruck, chuckles...
...three of the five steel doors leading out were still inexplicably closed. One theory was that the gate attendants had deserted their posts to watch the game's climax. Rank upon rank of screaming, struggling humanity crashed against the steel until the doors burst open and the mob surged over the crushed bodies in the corridors. Strips of skin clung to the walls, and in places the corpses were six deep. The death toll at the gates alone was 200. Outside, the rioting crowd rolled on through the streets, smashing windows and burning vehicles, forcing police reinforcements to fire...