Word: badalamenti
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...control and switch the channel. Logical, perhaps, but rather coldhearted. Imagine Mary Tyler Moore without Mary to "turn the world on with her smile," Gilligan's Island without its bouncy "tale of a fateful trip," Hill Street Blues without Mike Post's opening theme or Twin Peaks without Angelo Badalamenti...
...25th Olympiad. The occasion was a golden opportunity for presenting the city as a shiny new capital of a postnational world. It was also a quadrilingual glimpse into a multicultural future. Music at the celebrations that opened the Games came from an atlas of names -- Ryuichi Sakamoto, Angelo Badalamenti (of Twin Peaks fame), Andrew Lloyd Webber; Placido Domingo was followed by a sea of "living sculptures" designed by a man from the West Indies. And some of the grandest cheers of all came as the unfamiliar Lithuanian flag hung over costumes fashioned by Issey Miyake...
...took 45 minutes for the shirt-sleeved foreman just to read the 59-page list of verdicts. The most infamous defendant was Gaetano ("the Uncle") Badalamenti, 63, former chief of the Sicilian Mafia, who faces up to 30 years in prison, and Salvatore ("the Baker") Catalano, 46, a Queens bakery owner who prosecutors say is a powerful capo in the Bonanno family. He could get life imprisonment. Fifteen other defendants were found guilty of conspiracy. Badalamenti's son Vito was found innocent of his only charge of conspiracy, $ and another defendant was convicted of federal currency violations. To U.S. Attorney...
Buscetta occasionally stood up in the cavernous courtroom to point at defendants he claimed to have known as Mafia members. He identified Gaetano Badalamenti as a onetime capo, or boss, of the ruling Mafia commission in Sicily. Badalamenti, the key defendant, stared back impassively. Gaetano Mazzara's bemused smile turned to a look of disgust when he was picked out at the crowded defense tables and identified as the American distributor for the imported heroin. More such fingering is expected as Buscetta continues to testify in a complex trial that could last as long as six months. Defense attorneys will...
Among the defendants, the big cheese for prosecutors is Gaetano Badalamenti, 50, a Mafia capo who fled Sicily after a bloody gang war erupted in the late 1970s over control of the heroin trade. Badalamenti and his son Vito were ^ arrested in Spain and extradited to the U.S. for trial. The star witness against them will be Tommaso Buscetta, the first Sicilian don to break the Mafia's code of silence and turn informant. The same bloodletting that chased Badalamenti from Sicily drove Buscetta to the protection of the authorities. Since he began talking last year, Buscetta has been shuttled...