Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...framed 200 years ago, the Constitution was virtually paranoid on the subject of democracy. James Madison wrote in The Federalist about his view of democracy and direct government. If every Athenian citizen had been a Socrates, he thought, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. The founders began, "We the People." And yet "the People" had very little to do with writing the thing. The framers, working behind closed doors and shut windows, were highly literate white males -- landowners, military heroes, merchants, accomplished lawyers. Hardly a word was heard from the common folk. Only 133 years later, with...
...dates back to the era of tail fins and Hula-Hoops. Finally, after 30 years of frustration, the Justice Department is preparing a new offensive in its continuing struggle to cleanse mob stains from the 2 million-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Federal officials confirmed last week that the Government plans to file a path-breaking civil suit asking the courts to replace the national leadership of the Teamsters with a federal trustee. The takeover bid would not affect the upcoming criminal trial of Teamster President Jackie Presser on federal racketeering charges...
...ruling came in the case of Mob Boss Anthony (Fat Tony) Salerno, head of the Genovese crime family, and Vincent Cafaro, a reputed captain in the same Mafia clan, who were charged last year with racketeering. A federal appeals court in New York City ruled that to deny them bail would violate constitutional guarantees of due process...
...elegantly efficient script does not waste a word, and De Palma does not waste a shot. The result is a densely layered work moving with confident, compulsive energy. One sequence is set in Chicago's Union Station, where Ness and Stone must take a key witness from the Mob's protective custody. Into their stakeout blunders a mother maneuvering a baby carriage up a staircase. What delirious conflict between Ness the lawman and Ness the family man, as he tries to protect the infant and simultaneously conduct a shoot-out. What wild comedy in this conflict between duty and humanity...
...loitering gangs of Fijian youths. Eventually, some 500 native Fijians gathered in the center of Suva and began to run riot. They swarmed through the city, wrecking the stalls of Indian traders. One group hauled Indian taxi drivers from their vehicles, beating them and breaking car windows. The mob then charged 1,000 Indians in a city park and began punching and kicking them. An army unit finally had to be called to assist police in breaking up the melee. Both Australia and New Zealand had ships standing by near the port of Suva to bring out their nationals...