Word: mobbing
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While Daniel draws its wealthy Wasps broadly, it doesn't disrespect them (unlike Italian Catholics, represented in the show by a stereotyped, Mob-connected priest). The family's unresolved grief over son Jimmy's death is mostly unspoken but palpable, while Daniel's work is treated as a calling but also, realistically, as a job, with ambitions, pressures and politics. The scripts neatly balance satire and sincerity: while the show's outlandish twists challenge Daniel's faith--he's like Job, if Job lived on Melrose Place--they never mock...
...driver's either waved on or turned back. Nearly everyone is good-humored?some are clearly pleased to see the police out in force. But the officers are on edge: "We don't know what's going to happen," says one. "There've been messages going around that another mob...
...Checkpoints. Mobs. Lately, Sydneysiders have been grappling with scenes that few ever imagined would occur in their city. Though they're arguing about when the trouble started brewing and why, there can be no doubt when it erupted. On the morning of Sunday, Dec. 11, a crowd of some 5,000 people - overwhelmingly young men - gathered near Cronulla beach. Most had responded either to a mass-circulated text message that called on "Aussies" to reclaim their beaches from "wogs" and "Lebs," or to enthusiastic publicizing of the event by tabloid media. Among the less offensive slogans scrawled on bare chests...
...Lo’s former group, Outkast posse members Goodie Mob, also dug deep, most notably on their lyrical treatise on black poverty “Sesame Street,” the titular children’s TV show theme providing über-ironic sample fodder...
...Rival groups of angry young men are beating their chests and pumping up the volume of hate screech. One mob is mainly white surfer boys, the other tough guys of Lebanese origin. A festival of aggression-glass has been smashed, cars trashed, alcohol spilt and heads bashed-is never a pretty sight. This is a fight to the bottom for males who haven't found their place in the world. Loserpalooza is not the face that upwardly mobile, multicultural Sydney wants to show to the world...