Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hysteria, racial confrontation, abusive law enforcement, Klan night-riding and a climactic murder by blowtorch -- seemed at the 1957 debut to arise from Williams' inner demons. Three decades of civil rights struggle compelled a whole nation to see those demons as its own. Yet if the descent into lynch-mob madness echoes grim headlines, Hall has scrupulously avoided the common error of toning down Williams' expressionistic excess into unsuitable realism. In the first scene, the lighting changes with every few sentences of dialogue, to underscore shifts in mood and to cue the audience that it has entered a realm...
...Mob normally shuns publicity, but if gangsters cannot stay out of the spotlight, it seems they have a fallback position: they want a piece of the profitable action that others may generate from their crimes. The FBI has learned that East Coast racketeers are demanding a cut of the earnings from a proposed film about the life of Meyer Lansky, the Mafia's legendary financial genius who died...
...local president: Danny Sciarra, 56, whose brother, former local president Michael Sciarra, was barred from the leadership because of his ties to Mob boss Anthony (Tony Pro) Provenzano. The new vice president: Mark Sheridan, whose uncle was barred from office for the same reason. Sciarra ran openly as a surrogate for his deposed brother and won by an almost 2-to-1 ratio. But Federal Judge Harold A. Ackerman said the court-appointed trustee for the local would retain his "investigative capacities," and gave the new leaders 60 days to report in detail on how they intend...
Conspicuously missing from the debate is the central role of the Mafia in spreading the epidemic. Even the heavy blows dealt the Mob in the so-called Pizza Connection trials in the U.S. in 1987 and the mass trial and subsequent imprisonment of more than 300 Mafiosi in Sicily proved to be only temporary victories. Palermo's special investigating magistrates are trying, with little evident success, to untangle the intimate ties between the Sicilian Mob and politicians in the South. Like many legitimate businesses, the Mafia has gone global and uses sophisticated financial strategies to launder drug profits...
Still, says Senator Ferdinando Imposimato, a former magistrate who handled many a Mafia case, the Mob can be defeated "by isolating the Mafiosi as the ((Red Brigades)) terrorists were isolated and fought by a unified country." Not to forget international cooperation: roundups like last week's on both sides of the Atlantic could be a small but useful beginning in the struggle...