Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Montand might as well have said that Ripple had been designated the official French wine, for the Palais audience immediately erupted in derisive whistles and howls. Catherine Deneuve, who presented the award, pleaded futilely for the mob to give the director a chance to defend his honor. But the catcalls delighted Pialat. "If you don't like me," he proclaimed, "I can tell you, I don't like you either." He smiled and raised a defiant fist. More boos, more hoots. Somebody spat at him. PALME D'OR SCANDALE A CANNES, screamed the next day's papers...
Court watchers have also detected a new virulence lately in some defense attacks on prosecutors. During the recent federal racketeering trial that ended in the acquittal of alleged Mob Boss John Gotti, defense lawyers launched savage personal attacks against Prosecutor Diane Giacalone; they even made wild charges that Giacalone had given her underwear to a prospective witness as an inducement to testify. Charges like that, says New York University Law Professor Stephen Gillers, "represent a breakdown in the last thread of civility in a contentious adversarial process...
...throw back to Jim Crow laws," he said. "It shows that the Supreme Court is leading the lynch mob...
Former Marines like McCloskey point out that Marine guards held back a brick-throwing mob when the embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, was burned in 1979. But some say embassy guard duty, which the Marines shouldered in 1949, is unsuited for a group that is supposed to be a well-honed fighting force. Indeed, perhaps the most fundamental problem faced by the Marines, one that affects both their morale and their effectiveness, is that their mission has become murky...
...crystallized around the larger question -- as much ethical as legal -- of whether the U.S. is wrong to use Soviet-supplied evidence in its pursuit of Linnas and other accused Nazi war criminals. The honorable sheriff in the westerns, after all, protected even the most despicable criminal from the savage mob. In short, in its zeal to see a Nazi atrocity punished, is the U.S. guilty of trimming its standards of justice...