Word: mobbing
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Suddenly, Irving and I find ourselves surrounded. A mob of people dressed as bunnies - hundreds of them, maybe thousands, with bunny noses and bunny ears and buck, bunny teeth. They swarm the esplanade, carrying picket signs ("The only good human is at the end of a key chain.") The lead bunny is yelling through a megaphone, inciting the crowd, and we are engulfed in a bunny stampede, the annual Billion Bunny March...
...McCain's opportunities for high jinks were severely limited when he was shot out of the sky, beaten by a Vietnamese mob, then transported to a prison camp for 5 1/2 years of hell. The fact of his captivity is common knowledge, but the pain he endured and the defiance with which he endured it are not so well understood. "The first time I saw him, I thought he'd be dead by morning," recalls his cellmate, retired Air Force Colonel George (Bud) Day. "He'd been beaten, bayoneted and starved. He weighed maybe 95 lb. He just willed himself...
Pineapple Express Directed by David Gordon Green; rated R; out now The Judd Apatow mob muscles into action comedy with this louche, lunatic tale of a process server (Seth Rogen, who co-wrote the script) and his marijuana dealer (James Franco) going klutzily on the run from druglords. It's the Two Stooges with guns, a car chase and some very dope dope jokes...
...Isoventionism, Part I A ship carrying lightly armed U.S. and Canadian troops, sent as part of an agreement between the United Nations and the Haitian military that aims to restore President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power, was unable to dock in Haiti last week because a violent mob of army-backed civilians threatened the troops' safety. The U.N. Security Council later voted to reactivate an oil- and-arms embargo on Haiti, which will take effect this week if the Haitian military does not abide by the accord. President Clinton has ordered six Navy vessels into the area to enforce...
...United States, or at least a Republican senator.'' Lena's father was the first family member to break the code: Teddy Horne divorced his wife, who later became an actress. He was also a major-league gambler with underworld connections. One of them paid off: Dutch Schultz's mob guaranteed ''protection'' for Teddy's daughter when at 16 she began her career as a dancer at Harlem's Cotton Club. Yet Lena, though she followed in her parents' wayward footsteps, remained very much the proper granddaughter, combining ''ante-bellum manners and New England values.'' In later years she would...