Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meet him, he is dropping $44,000 in what used to be known as a "gambling hell." The rest of the film is devoted to his efforts to settle this debt before the Mob settles his hash. That should be an easy matter-Mom, after all, has 44 grand which our boy obtains through brief cajolery. But paying off the bad guys is just too simple for a self-made Dostoyevskian man. He must risk the bundle in Las Vegas (where he doubles it), then lose it all on some unwise basketball bets. He finally settles the matter by getting...
...television snooting schedule. Worse, in contrast to Little House, which keeps a tight focus on a single family, thus stressing its isolation and exemplary independence, The New Land is crowded with people-a whole farm community-none of whom has yet emerged as a genuinely interesting character. This mob's efforts to imitate Swedish accents are occasionally laughable but mostly ponderous, further slowing what may be the new season's longest hour...
...Incident (1943). Excellent drama about mob rule. With Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes and Anthony Quinn...
...that an innocent reporter who had sought comments from citizens was surrounded by an angry mob that made the press and not Southie the center of debate, and a photographer who squeezed past demonstrators to get a shot of Louise Day Hicks was thrown across the hood of a car and mauled viciously. (As he hobbled back to safety, that photographer asked his colleague, "Do you think we can get injury compensation...
THIS SHOWED UP in the initial coverage by The Boston Globe and The Herald American. The headlines on the first evening and the following day asserted that "calm prevails" and the stories buried the fact that mob disruptions had marked the day at Southie High. Meanwhile in The New York Times the next day, John Kifner--who perhaps benefited from the detachment he enjoyed as an outsider--wrote a powerful article that led with the fact that violence marred the opening of schools...