Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...compassion for those who don't articulate their thoughts and so drift helplessly in emotional weakness. His lack of respect is reflected in the degree to which these characters remain caricature. But antecedents of Skelton's philosophical calculations are seen in his grandfather Goldsboro, head of the Key West mob and financier of the skiff...
...this city (pop. 390,000), such as President John Howard, 51, of Lewis and Clark College, who says of the press and Congress: "They are like sharks. When they smell blood, they go mad." Another is J. Richard Nokes, 58, managing editor of the Oregonian, who declares: "A lynch-mob atmosphere has developed in the Washington press corps and in Congress. Now it has spread through the country." But majority sentiment in Portland is illustrated by the fact that Nokes' own newspaper receives 40 times as many anti-Nixon letters as pro-Nixon; one family alone wrote five angry...
...maniacally and inexplicably self-destructive, running up huge gambling debts and refusing to pay them. His friend Charlie (Harvey Keitel), who guarantees the loans, becomes simultaneously anxious and guilty, not only about this relationship but about life in general. He is anxious because he hopes to rise in the Mob and cannot afford to have a lot of blood spilled on his turf. He is guilty because he believes in Catholic hellfire. These hang-ups also cause him to behave abominably to his girl (Amy Robinson), who is smart and pretty but no hit with his uncle, the Godfather, because...
...stuffed with hundreds, a little over $750,000 worth. His partner, Harman (Andy Robinson), is ecstatic, but Charley (Walter Matthau) is worried. He knows that the only reason there would be money like that in Tres Cruces is if the bank is being used for a drop by the mob...
With the law looming on one side, the mob moving in on the other, Charley Varrick is the definitive outside man-or, as he bills himself, "the last of the independents." As he has shown previously in Dirty Harry, Coogan's Bluff and Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Director Don Siegel likes the peril such a situation can hold, as well as the sort of crusty dignity it can instill. Charley Varrick is different from much of his recent work, though, in that it is a little more leisurely, relaxed and sardonic...