Word: mobbing
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...universal suffrage": a Chief Executive chosen by the people and not a narrow electoral college; and for a fully elected legislature, not the mixed bag of members currently chosen by either popular vote or professional groups. Beijing, for its part, refuses to be swayed by what it regards as "mob rule," and is resolute in its intention to delay democracy in the former British colony...
...game - starts with the scrum, and Jones leaves behind an Australian scrum that is an embarrassment. While the back line can execute moves of dazzling geometry, they too seldom touch the ball, partly because the brutes in the engine room simply can't push as hard as the other mob...
...Grosse Pointe Blank,” Cusack plays a man haunted by his shady past. In this case, his character, Charlie and his associate Vic (Billy Bob Thornton, “Monster’s Ball”) have embezzled $2 million from a mob boss and are being tracked down by one of the boss’s hit men. Cusack as a hard-nosed killer/mob lawyer, without any of the neurotic charm of “Gross Pointe Blank,” is a bit hard to stomach. One wonders what happened to that fun, lovable...
...want a part of it? I said to some boys the other day, You can have the flash car and the blonde on your arm. But you've got to work for it." One of Moore's slogans, reproduced on a mobile-phone holder is leave the mob, get a job. Making the initial step into work for a young person from a troubled family is difficult, she says, especially with the peer pressure that comes from being different and taunts of "shame." "Become a role model, I say to them. The only 'shame' about...
...Jersey Boys hews to the bio-facts, and to the notion that any story about the Italian-American working class has to be about elaborate ritual behavior and ties with the mob. As in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas, the Seasons' philandering is strictly regimented; one of them says, "You had your real family and your road family." As in Scorsese's Mean Streets, four guys hang out looking for the big score, and one of them get in trouble with a don. By the end of Act I, Tommy owes a half-million dollars to various nefarious gents. Recalling their...