Word: alfonso
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...TIME has obtained a two-year-old FBI debriefing report of Alfonso ("Little Al") D'Arco, the former acting boss of the Lucchese crime family, who has been hiding in the Witness Protection Program since 1991. According to the report (see opposite page), D'Arco revealed that Carey was tied to La Cosa Nostra through the late Joseph ("Joe Shrugs") Trerotola, a legendary Teamster kingmaker who resigned in 1991 at age 82 amid charges he allowed organized crime to flourish in the union...
DIRECTOR: ALFONSO ARAU...
...first novel, Like Water for Chocolate, Mexican screenwriter Laura Esquivel brought Gabriel Garcia Marquez's brand of magic realism into the kitchen and the bedroom, the Latin woman's traditional castle and dungeon. The film version was written by Esquivel and directed by her husband Alfonso Arau, known to U.S. audiences for his performances in funky-flaky westerns. In The Wild Bunch he played a punk gunslinger and in Three Amigos! the malefic El Guapo, who spits out the immortal line "A plethora of pinatas...
...well as her father's Peasant Unity Committee but has neither backed nor denounced the rebels and their use of violence. Before the prize was announced, a military - spokesman argued that giving it to her "would be a political victory for the guerrillas." On the contrary, wrote columnist Alfonso Portillo in the daily Siglo 21, "she makes those who are guided by hate, racism, selfishness and stupidity tremble...
...Alfonso Torrijos...