Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Past tours with such established L.A. metal groups as Lynch Mob and Kik Tracee enabled them to steadily build their reputation in California, but now the band is gaining national acclaim...
...Mob and the Klan hovering aroundus," he says. "Everybody is not concerned aboutGang Peace or about my life...
...corruption and verbosity of its senators, in its reliance on sacred geese (those feathered ancestors of our own pollsters and spin doctors) and in its submission to senile, deified Emperors controlled by astrologers and extravagant wives. A culture that has replaced gladiatorial games, as a means of pacifying the mob, with high-tech wars on television that cause immense slaughter and yet leave the Mesopotamian satraps in full power over their wretched subjects...
Collective judgments based on gossip are always crude, often stupid, and sometimes stir up a lynch mob. Anyway, the standards vary absurdly. Why is it all right for Bob Kerrey to divorce his wife and invite an actress, Debra Winger, to move into the Nebraska Governor's mansion for a time (the Nebraskans loved that touch of glamour) and wrong for Bill Clinton to stay married to his wife and work through their troubles...
...part of an authentic gangland war. "I'm not convinced, simply because too many innocent bystanders are getting hurt," maintains Stanley Meyer, a lawyer for Persico and several other Colombo members. "It seems to be very unprofessional." But Meyer knows just how messy the Colombos can be: he prosecuted Mob cases during the family's so-called Gallo wars, which broke out in 1960 and resulted in 13 murders. In 1972 Joseph Gallo was sloppily killed by fellow Colombos in Umbertos, a crowded clam house in Manhattan's Little Italy. Several months later, his avengers entered another restaurant, the Neopolitan...