Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ferguson is not expecting dramatic overnight changes in police-Chicano relations. But already at least one potential explosion was defused by the live-in sessions. Shortly after his barrio stint, Carroll was arresting a Chicano who attempted to rob a store. As usual, a jeering mob gathered and started heckling the patrolman. Then he recognized a youth he had met while living in the barrio. The two men exchanged greetings; the crowd grew silent and slowly melted away. "All of a sudden, the hostility was gone," recalls Carroll. He adds: "We all have these preconceived ideas...
...Mob-controlled American businesses...
...loose in her first aria and blazed to the end at full capacity. She was gloriously confident, full of defiance and swagger, and poured out her ten-minute solo aria in the third act with the beauty that comes from inexhaustible strength. As it turned out, she had a mob of fans in the audience to rival Sills's; the Sills people were wildly adoring but the Verrett people were fierce--they had more to prove. Verrett's solo netted a five-minute ovation, rhythmic pounding on the floor, shouts of "Brava, diva!" and a shower of shredded programs from...
...earlier crowd scenes the mob swarms around Tommy and the giddy camera fairly swims in it. The real epiphanies happen here: Town-shend's music soars and the emphasis resounds. We are supposed to "get off" on these segments, and the meaning be damned. When you're kicking out the jams on every scene, there's no room left for comparative perspective. And the filmmakers know full well that the kids they portray as papering their faces in wild adulation, the kids submitting gratefully to the opportunity to stop up their senses and give themselves over to the flashing, ringing...
This was Lowell Lee overrun by a backlash mob: Emerson Hall seized and reversed. Professors who think they are boring get a rush from mentioning something about New Haven and feeling the cool Harvard his from the audience. But here it was no giggling serpent noise but a monstrous barrage of "Fuck You!" One announcer never got near the mike without a voice yelling "Shut up you fuckin' preppie!" The announcer went to public school and the shouting beero was a preppie...