Word: mobbing
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...fragments of splintered national identity. At the climax of Griffith’s myth, veterans of the Union and the Confederacy realize that they share the common bond of an “Aryan birthright”—and they defend this birthright from a mob of marauding Negroes...
...himself in. Many found his resignation impressive. The U.N. administrator for Kosovo, Soren Jessen-Petersen, said that Haradinaj "has once again put the interests of Kosovo above his own." HERO FOR A LIFETIME beamed the newspaper Express. NATO flew in 1,000 reinforcements to guard against the possibility of mob violence, but Kosovo Albanians greeted the news that a "war hero" had been indicted with relative calm. International officials are already holding Kosovo up as an example to neighboring Serbia and to Croatia, which have been reluctant to turn over popular suspects. Diplomats...
...typical scene intercuts blacks fermenting restless mob violence against a frontier family, a biracial servant trying to rape his former mistress, and the Klu Klux Klan heroically riding to the rescue, clearly indicating the necessity of white racial supremacy...
...star of that movie, appeared again as a powerful figure on the brink of insanity, this time as Jake LaMotta, a real-life former middleweight boxing champion whose power had a tendency to also manifest itself outside the ring, and who followed up boxing with stints in the mob, prison, and stand-up comedy. In honor of this occasion, the Brattle Theater is celebrating with a week of Raging Bull, which won Oscars both for leading actor DeNiro and for best editing. The black and white film is notoriously hard-hitting for its portrayal of LaMotta’s abusive...
...despots? In fact, they bitterly denounced the Bush doctrine for presuming to destabilize the region in pursuit of some democratic chimera? They opposed the Bush doctrine precisely because they preferred stability. They warned us darkly that the alternative to the status quo was the seething Arab street--an unruly mob, anarchic, anti-American, pan-Arabist or perhaps Islamist, ignorant of all liberal traditions and ready to rise up against America should it disturb the perfect order of things by "imposing democracy...