Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Michael G. Thevis was imprisoned in 1974 for interstate transportation of obscene material, lawmen figured they had put the flamboyant peep-show operator out of sight for some time. Not only was he sent to jail for 8½ years, but further investigations into his alleged Mob connections raised the possibility of new indictments. It now seems clear that Thevis, 46, was not turned on by his legal prospects. And so last week, while a federal grand jury dutifully continued its probe into his racketeering, two more juries were investigating how on April 28 the paunchy, balding Thevis managed...
...first visit to Algiers, De Gaulle sent a cheering mob of colons in the Forum into near ecstasy with his celebrated opening words: "Je vous ai compris" (I have understood you). To the pieds noirs, it was a sign that De Gaulle accepted the idea of Algérie Française - and perhaps at the time he did. Yet to the dismay of the army and the fury of the settlers, De Gaulle eventually concluded that Algeria would have to be sacrificed for the greater glory of France...
Preparing for the job required a sizable outlay of cash. Vehicles had to be bought, bribes paid to railroad workers for information. A farmhouse had to be purchased not too far from Sears Crossing, where the mob could hide out and split their spoils-approximately ? 150,000 per yegg...
...movie's slapstick escapades, it never turns into a Three Stooges picture. Director Robert Zemeckis' broad style frequently rises above silliness to be come a form of pop surrealism. The tip-off to his intentions occurs early on, when he shows us a mob of screaming girls grabbing up copies of Meet the Beatles in a store that stocks only Beatles albums. The scene is not faithful to reality but to our memories of that time. Such dreamlike exaggerations allow Zemeckis to cut to the very heart of his material...
...members who will live together as a unit during the occupation. The group members will make joint decisions on how to proceed with the protest once they arrive at the sight, and take responsibility for their own members to prevent the demonstration from degenerating into a mob scene, members of the group said yesterday...