Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quietly surrendered -- confirming his identity and complimenting his captors -- Italy's law enforcers smelled a larger victory in their struggle against the Mob. Riina's capture was the latest in a series of successes by the government since it began to get tough with entrenched crime following the 1992 murders of two of the country's top Mafia prosecutors. Last September, Giuseppe ("Piddu") Madonia, a member of the Mafia's 24-man decision-making body known as the Cupola, was caught after police tapped his portable phone. The same week Carmine Alfieri, the leader of the Camorra, the Naples crime...
...dang tree is in the way," complained a silver-haired woman to her husband as they threaded their way through the mob...
...promise of "religious war." Reagan ended his speech with his "shining city upon a hill" peroration, a vision of the sunny uplands of America's future. Buchanan ended his speech too with a vision of America at its best: a couple of soldiers pointing M-16s at a mob of fellow (presumably black and Hispanic) Americans...
...reception was no friendlier at his next stop, Mogadishu. The Secretary- General was forced to flee to a U.S. Marine compound after U.N. headquarters was surrounded by a raucous mob that hurled rocks and garbage. When Boutros-Ghali traveled on to Addis Ababa for the opening of peace talks among Somali faction leaders, Ethiopian demonstrators gathered to protest alleged U.N. support for the secession of the province of Eritrea...
Hence Hoffa, an utterly externalized view of the corrupt, crusading boss of the Teamsters, James R. Hoffa. The R stood for Riddle, and David Mamet's lean script is content to leave him at that. Hoffa does stuff -- bullies management, connives with the Mob -- but who is he? The movie gives not a clue. Jack Nicholson looks eerily like his subject, and he has the abrupt gestures and staccato voice of a man who overcomes lack of eloquence by force of will. But director Danny DeVito, who also plays Hoffa's closest ally, gets way too fond...