Word: situationists
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...coordinator distribute further instructions on when and where to gather and when to leave. "I couldn't break the tradition." Inexplicable mobs, or flash mobs, as they've also been dubbed, have become the social trend of the summer. Echoing back to '60s-era "happenings" or '70s-era Situationist art projects - except shorter and with even less purpose - these pseudo-spontaneous gatherings began in June in New York City, and spread quickly across America before making their way to Europe (Rome, to be precise) on July 24. The mobs were the idea of Bill, a twenty-something New Yorker...