Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speed away from the fusillade of bricks, bottles and bullets aimed at their cars. "There's one, that's a white one!" a black screamed as a yellow Toyota passed an intersection. The driver spun his wheels frantically in an oil slick before escaping the approaching mob. Recalled white Motorist Jim Davis: "The police had put up a roadblock. I couldn't get around it. I went into a U-turn, but my car stalled and they came running at me. I heard them scream, 'Honky!' I got the car into gear and knocked them...
...what about when you are outnumbered," a voice shot up from the melee. The mob became silent...
...first nine victims were removed, the remaining four had been bound to the posts. They went down in a fusillade of fire that lasted five minutes. Many of the soldiers in the rear formation joined in. As the shooting stopped, a great shout rose from the watching mob: "Freedom! At last we have our freedom!" Some of the soldiers rushed forward to kick and pummel the corpses...
Sitting Ducks starts out as a routine comic caper in which a pair of incompetent criminals (Zack Norman and Michael Emil) make off with the day's take of the Mob's New York gambling operations and make their way toward Miami and a rendezvous with a seaplane that is supposed to take them to a haven in Costa Rica. Indeed, the first glimpses of this enterprise are inordinately depressing: the shooting and editing are tacky, and the dialogue meanders witlessly from one half-improvised notion to another...
...fact, hypocrisy and its concomitant, special pleading, have always been Hook's true bêtes noires: "The impassioned groups that shout in our courtrooms today 'All power to the people' are unaware that they are calling for mob rule of which many of their forebears were victims." Of reverse discrimination, Hook demands: "Would it be reasonable to contend that women should have been compensated for past discrimination against their maternal forebears by being given an extra vote or two ... ?" Nor is he indulgent to political philosophers-"those of us who are concerned with current issues...