Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...uniforms, strongly resembling Hitler's SS troops. As Tannhäuser lay dying at the end and cries of "Hallelujah!" rang out, 345 klieg lights lit up the theater, and instead of pilgrims, the audience saw a stageful of workmen glaring at them, raising clenched fists like a mob in a social protest play...
...birthday cake, then cannonaded him with custard pies that splattered over the front-row customers. Then on to the birthday party at the normally staid St. Regis Roof, where Count Basie alternated with Muddy Waters to provide music, and Andy Warhol fluttered around aiming a Polaroid camera at a mob that included Dick Cavett, Lee Radziwill, Truman Capote, George Plimpton, Woody Allen and tie-dyed Zsa Zsa Gabor. Out of another giant cake popped Warhol Protege Gerry Williams outfitted in two black pasties and one black garter, her costume for an unusually explicit erotic dance. Then came more gifts...
...pattern of death in New York's protracted mob war became clearer last week as one of the city's highest-ranking Mafiosi became victim No. 18 in more than a year of gangland slayings. Found on a Brooklyn street with five .32 caliber wounds in his head was Thomas (Tommy Ryan) Eboli, 61, a top leader of one of New York's five Mafia families. Federal officials now believe that much of the bloodshed is part of a clever and brutal drive by the nation's most powerful Mafia commander, Carlo Gambino, 73, to seize...
...climbed steadily in the family of Luciano's successor, Vito Genovese, partly by shooting straight. He reportedly carried out a contract in 1962 to gun down Anthony Strollo, another rising Genovese aide, who had insisted on dealing in narcotics against the family rules. Eboli fell out of mob favor for a time when he was so brash as to distribute a "wanted" poster for an FBI agent who was investigating his vending machine and jukebox business-and the FBI responded by assigning dozens of agents to dog the Genovese family...
Irving's easily daunted hero is Fred ("Bogus") Trumper, a monumental procrastinator with a talent for bungling. Bogus' hardscrabble effort to support his wife "Biggie" and infant son Colm by selling football pins and pennants is thwarted by a mob of fans who pick clean his display board. Seeing his existence threatened by "little things-errors of judgment, but never crimes" -Bogus begins identifying with Akthelt, the heroic warrior and lover in Akthelt and Gunnel-an absurd Old Low Norse epic he is translating for his doctoral thesis. And when Akthelt is told "Det henskit of krig...