Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fresh Faces. The media mob included Feminist Germaine Greer (who quickly characterized the convention as "a crock of s-") as well as an "alternative audio collective" called Unicorn Press, which provided spots for some 30 rock radio stations. Yippie Leader Jerry Rubin and his colleague Abbie Hoffman were accredited for the purpose of writing a book about the convention, but they waggishly passed themselves off as correspondents for, respectively. Mad magazine and Popular Mechanics. Politicians who had been excluded from the convention floor by party reform, like Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty and California Congressman Jess Unruh, showed...
...tastes like a blend of cola, cherry and cream soda. The commercials stress the theme that, though many people are reluctant to try it, they like it once they take the plunge. Their approaches range from the outrageous (a Latin dictator besieged in his palace by a howling mob demanding that he take a sip) to the smirking (a lothario urging an innocent girl to "come on" try it, while she purrs the puritan objection: "My parents." Not until the end of the commercial is it made entirely clear that they are talking about Dr Pepper...
...SLOW-MOTION, as currently played, is not led up to very well, but the idea itself is stunning. This solution has the added virtue of heightening the contrast between the rationalized assassination of Caesar and the ensuing irrational mob-lynching of Cinna the poet for the crime of having the same name as one of the conspirators. The latter--one of stage literature's most horrible acts, from which mankind has yet to learn--is carried out fast and brutally: not only is the innocent Cinna stabbed, but his eyes are also gouged out with sticks, while the stage...
Several minutes later, a group of marchers rammed through the bar door using poles from antiwar banners, and a mob of about 150 people poured into the building as two Harvard policemen watched helplessly. Once inside, the demonstrators began overturning bookcases, smashing windows and throwing books and papers about. Some of the crowd refrained from the destruction, which was mostly spontaneous. The vast majority were not Harvard students...
Several minutes later, a group of marches rammed through the bar door using poles from antiwar banners, and a mob of about 150 people poured into the building as two Harvard policemen watched helplessly. Once inside, the demonstrators began overturning bookcases, smashing windows and throwing books and papers about. Some of the crowd refrained from the destruction, which was mostly spontaneous. The vast majority were not Harvard students...