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...Englanders." Indeed, often the "mob" served quite legal ends, as when the hue and cry was set up to apprehend a thief, or when measures had to be taken to deal with public health problems. Small wonder, then, that a member of a mob was rarely convicted for his riotous actions. In the 20th century we have become accustomed to seeing theft and looting accompany mob action, but surprisingly that association did not exist in the 18th century...
...NORMAN CONQUESTS. Love is never saying no, according to Alan Ayckbourn's comic monster Norman, whose ravenous libido reduces not one but three evenings to a riotous shambles of reluctant yes-women...
...Living Together, or in the bushes in No. 3, Round and Round the Garden. Do not be alarmed. It is nothing like the Ring. The comedies interweave with the boisterous precision of a Scottish reel, and finally yield a picture of family life at once riotous and desolate...
...real" Ali. He tells us of his early sex life, and his flubbing of a chance with a hooker when he was 16 because he didn't know what to do. He dwells on his shyness with women (a shyness which one suspects still exists). There's a riotous conversation with Joe Frazier which Ali taped in Frazier's car prior to their first fight. And then there's the usual Ali irony and understatement. Of Rocky Marciano he says, "Rocky was quiet, peaceful, humble, not cocky or boastful. I can't stand heavyweights who talk too much...
Moderates on the Revolutionary Council were helpless against moves by organized pressure groups in the army and among the workers. Attempts to replace maverick leftist General Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho−who openly sympathizes with riotous workers' demonstrations−as military commander of Lisbon failed when leftist commanders of the Lisbon units met and refused to accept Otelo's successor. The defeat was an ominous one for Pinheiro de Azevedo's Sixth Provisional government...