Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HARKNESS COMMONS, The Lavender Hill Mob, with Alec Guiness...
...hard to pinpoint where Bette is at her best. Her "Lullaby of Broadway/Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" medley, choreographed with her bumping and grinding Harlettes, opened the second act with overpowering excitement, and her version of "Leader of the Pack," acted out to poignant Shangri-La-type humming, captivated the mob. Bette Midler is equally at home with more sensitive and lyrical songs. Her version of "Delta Dawn" and her breathy "Am I Blue" left the audience breathless...
...Kyoto bank, which had used yakuza to threaten and intimidate workers into going along with management in a labor dispute, almost went broke from mob shakedowns before it recently called on police for help. At a general stockholders' meeting of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries two years ago, a tough-looking platoon of men beat up a group of peace advocates who had bought shares in the company so that they could protest Mitsubishi's arms production. The men were known to be sokaiya, but no company official ever admitted inviting them. Indeed, it is possible that they had simply...
Gangsterism is not new to Japan (it actually dates back to the 16th century when unemployed samurai turned to banditry, organizing into small gangs in the process). But the mob's bravado is a novelty. Until fairly recently, in fact, gangsters were obliged by a chivalric code to give to the poor and avoid harming innocent people. Like members of the Mafia, they took a blood oath that was not broken with impunity. For failing to live up to the yakuza code, an offender had to show penitence by cutting off his little finger and presenting...
...Agnew party, she had asked him: "Do you think your Mafia ties might prove embarrassing to the Vice President?" At that time, Sinatra replied, "Naw, I don't worry about anything like that." But these things rankle-particularly when a man who has friends in the mob keeps trying to make friends in the White House...