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Gray-haired, pale and immaculate in his neatly pressed prison uniform, Michele Sindona, 62, retains an aura of the multimillionaire banker and financial genius. Now serving a 25-year term in upstate New York for bank fraud in connection with the 1974 collapse of the Franklin National Bank, Sindona was for years a financial adviser to the Vatican. Though he still insists that he was framed in the Franklin affair by powerful Italian state banking interests who would not produce documents that would clear him, he readily admits to being deeply involved in the events that led to the downfall...
...energy and discipline. The films mean to display these virtues as well and get a head start toward that goal by casting, as the mentors, Willie Nelson and, in The Challenge, Toshiro Mifune, two sternly noble faces worthy of being carved on any cinematic Rushmore. Each man carries an aura of stolid grace and flashing moral strength...
Merkin's characters are old only in street wisdom, and they are eventually undone by the one informer they cannot silence: immaturity. Richard leaves the gang for his parents' Connecticut suburb, "until a semester starts somewhere." The violent adventures of the others have the aura of a dorm game of Dungeons and Dragons, and Becker's final question smacks of Psych. 101: "Did people have to get blown away just so I wouldn't have to. . . wear neckties...
...vaguely by the selves we might be. Man is the only creature that can imagine being someone else. The fantasy of being someone else is the basis of sympathy, of humanity. Daydreams of possibility enlarge the mind. They are also haunting. Around every active mind there always hovers an aura of hypothesis and the subjunctive: almost every conscious intellect is continuously wandering elsewhere in time and space...
...account it is the largest such shop in the country, and its appearance, while not as spiffy as the official team joint around the corner, has more of the aura of a baseball...