Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Highway 80, 400 yards beyond the bridge, was a phalanx of 60 state cops. Suddenly the clubs started swinging. From the sidelines, white townspeople raised their voices in cheers and whoops. Joined by possemen and deputies, the patrolmen waded into the screaming mob. Now came the sound of canisters being fired. A Negro screamed: "Tear gas!" Within seconds the highway was swirling with white and yellow clouds of smoke, raging with the cries of men. Choking, bleeding, the Negroes fled in all directions while the whites pursued them. The mounted men uncoiled bull whips and lashed out viciously...
Then at 1:30 p. m., a popular broker and huntsman named Richard F. Whitney strode through the mob of desperate traders, made swiftly for Post No. 2 where the stock of the United States Steel Corp., most pivotal of all U. S. stocks, is traded in. Steel too, had been sinking fast. Having broken down through 200, it was now at 190. If it should sink further, Panic with its most awful leer, might surely take command. Loudly, confidently at Post No. 2, Broker Whitney made known that he offered $205 per share for 25,000 shares of Steel...
Rocks and bottles flew. Looting, at first dared by only a few, became a mob delirium as big crowds now gathered. Arsonists lobbed Molotov cocktails at newly pillaged stores. Fires started in the shops, spread swiftly to homes and apartments. Snipers took up posts in windows and on rooftops. For four days and into the fifth, mobs stole, burned and killed as some 15,000 police, National Guardsmen and federal troops fought to smother the fire. The city was paralyzed...
...likes of this in my life," said Pontes Neto, a Red Cross official. "The children all have the same sickness, worms and chronic hunger." Shoeless looters roaming city streets have panicked retailers. All last week, heavy looting took place in Rio de Janeiro suburbs. In one wild afternoon, a mob of 400 sacked four grocery stores in the area, ripping down steel gratings and smashing windows. Says Security Guard Anzio Gomes Monteiro: "They seemed crazed, wanting to break everything, and said they were hungry and thirsty...
...very nature of capitalism militates against a stable snobbery: the capitalist seeks the widest possible market; quality chases the dollars of the mob, but when the mob buys en masse, the illusion of quality, of specialness, vanishes. With metaphysical complexity, the makers of Lacoste shirts have understood this, and are making Lacoste shirts that have no alligator on them, stroke, spectacular instance of self-supersession. In one stroke, Lacoste has taken snobbery into another dimension...