Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This year's show drags spectactors into the age of speakeasies, gangsters and Prohibition. The plot is simple. Booze is forbidden, boobs are not. Action turns on the antics of three main groups--bar-goers, cops and mobsters. The only beer joint in town not run by the mob--Cafe Ole--offers stripteasers to serve up the mixers. The plot centers around an attempt to save the bar, first from getting busted by the Federal Bureau of Prohibition and then from a "hostile takeover" by the mob...
...Depression, the book introduces the reader to the New York mob of Dutch Schultz, who, along with his trusted--and not so trusted--minions, runs illegal businesses, evades taxes and dabbles in the pastime of murder...
Veteran actor Alec Guinness, co-star of Little Dorrit, received a nomination for best supporting actor, as did Kevin Kline for A Fish Called Wanda, Martin Landau for Tucker. The Man and His Dream, River Phoenix for Running On Empty and Dean Stockwell for Married to the Mob...
When Harvard didn't kill penalties, it killed the crowd instead. The Lynah Mob, notorious for being Cornell's sixth man, spent most of the night in the penalty...
With that, the Bastille exploded into the biggest uproar since a mob stormed the fortress prison to begin the French Revolution of 1789. Some of the brightest stars in the world of music noisily opened fire in support of Barenboim. Jessye Norman, the stately Georgia-born soprano, said she would "reconsider" whether to sing in the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the Revolution. Patrice Chereau, who was to stage a new production of Mozart's Don Giovanni on opening night a year from now, said he considered his contract "annulled by this event." Conductor-composer Pierre Boulez resigned...