Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early on, says Lieut. Russell Olson, the Beverly Hills chief of detectives, "we had suspicions of the boys' involvement." Police had ruled out a gangland murder because of the sheer savagery of the attack. "Mob killings are 'clean'; this one wasn't," says an officer. Suspicions were further heightened when family members told police that a copy of what might have been a new will had been erased from Jose Menendez's home computer. "The focus became very clear over the past few months," said Chief of Police Marvin Iannone. There was some physical evidence, but "we were waiting...
Baldwin did TV, regional theater and Broadway (Loot). He worked hard and wide; he was everywhere and invisible at the same time. In 1988 he appeared in widely varying guises in four substantial movies: Beetlejuice, Married to the Mob, Working Girl and Talk Radio. In this movie equivalent of repertory theater Baldwin didn't make a big splash -- it was more a series of pleasant ripples -- but the roles enabled him to parade his versatility and apprentice with top directors. He insinuated his presence rather than asserting...
Still, Hollywood remembered him. Married to the Mob (directed by Jonathan Demme) led to Miami Blues (co-produced by Demme). Costner said no to Red October, and Baldwin got the job. Now he has a Woody Allen movie in the hopper. And after Prelude to a Kiss he will vacate his Manhattan apartment (where he lives alone after the breakup of a recent romance) to shoot Neil Simon's Marrying Man in Los Angeles. In the film he plays a satyric bachelor who falls in love with Kim Basinger on the eve of his wedding...
...took a single killing to ignite the wrath of the frustrated people of Haiti. Last Monday, while dispersing demonstrators, troops shot an eleven- year-old girl in the town of Petit-Goave. The next night, an angry mob burned an army outpost. By Friday the protests had spread across Haiti as thousands took to the streets demanding the resignation of Lieut. General Prosper Avril, who seized power in a 1988 coup. At least three people were killed in clashes with troops...
Another car is commandeered to return us close to the hotel. Two Russian ; journalists whom we had met earlier did not fare as well: both were beaten, and had to run for their lives from a mob that stopped the car they were...