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...protect empty premises. In a 1971 Iowa case, Katko vs. Briney, the State Supreme Court upheld an award of $30,000 in damages to a man who was injured by a spring gun when he broke into the upstairs bedroom of an abandoned farmhouse. In a 1974 case, San Anselmo, Calif, Homeowner Don Luis Ceballos was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon when his spring gun shot a teen-ager who tried to steal some musical instruments from his garage...
There he rides the coattails of a rising Boston politician named James Michael Curley. Because the Curley machine needs Boston's Italian North End in its pocket, Brady arranges a pardon for a notorious Sicilian Mafioso named Gennaro Anselmo. Dishonesty continues to lure Brady: he builds an insurance empire through which his new friend Gennaro sluices his racketeer's profits. Carroll's message is an old one: with such mortally dangerous friends, one needs no enemies. Time and again, the man who won his first fame by setting up an ambush is himself waylaid by his friends...
Throughout this long, vivid saga, Novelist Carroll thoroughly exploits the Ragtime device-an interplay of historical figures with fictional characters. The portraits of the authentic personae are intriguing, but the question recurs: Are they real? Bobby Kennedy blackmails Brady's son into planting a bug in Anselmo's office. Young Brady protests that "it's not legal." Replies the Attorney General...
...when Donoso starts pulling his fanciful strings, a model named Sylvia is revealed as a sapient dummy whose arms can be popped from their sockets and whose features can be wiped away. To her lover, Anselmo, Sylvia is an ideal of female submissiveness. But Sylvia has a trick up her armless sleeve. A subtle application of vanishing cream causes Anselmo's sex to disappear-just before his return home to his wife...
Success does not mean much to Lu cas. He still drives around in a 1967 Camaro, eats junk food, wears sneakers, jeans, and baggy Shetland sweaters. His main residence is still a small house in the San Francisco suburb of San Anselmo. He and Marcia also own a work pad in Beverly Hills. When they are there, the banister is covered with an array of jeans and corduroy trousers -the working outfit for both husband and wife...