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...thunderstorm, a bump from a car pulling into the % parking space ahead, someone leaning against the fender? The plates on the wailing car indicate that it comes from Long Island. After 15 or 20 minutes someone puts a note on the windshield: GO BACK TO LONG ISLAND WHERE YOU BELONG AND LEAVE YOUR ALARM THERE. Two hours pass; alarm still wailing. Someone else scrawls some impolite advice in lipstick on the windshield. An hour after that, the car is sprayed with shaving cream and pelted by wet trash and rotten food. Eons later the alarm is still relentlessly screaming...
...walk into a restaurant, they'll chase the person out of the best table and put you there. There's just so much glamour and respect and money. The nightclubs, the broads. Broads just die over you. It's unbelievable. In the Mob, you've got friends; you belong to an army, something that is so powerful. You're with the elite. Your word is law, you're like the judge and jury. Anything you say is final. You feel that you're so superior and that you're chosen. I had 100 to 150 guys with me: bookmakers, loan...
...exclaims at the start of one episode. Loggia is wary but tolerant of her chirpy spirituality; the kids are overtly & skeptical. At one family dinner, TT describes her woozy mix of religion and environmentalism ("The natural world is the largest sacred community to which we all belong"). Comments one daughter: "She just turned left at Pluto...
...sight of a gang of Zulus brandishing traditional weapons is enough to instill terror in the black townships around Johannesburg, where many residents belong to other tribal groups. Local newspapers recently published a photo that shows why. The frame captured a black man in Soweto clasping a spear and plunging it into the back of another black man, who was desperately trying to flee...
...when the hotel industry mixed glamour and high finance in an intoxicating cocktail that attracted the most flamboyant entrepreneurs of the past century -- Conrad Hilton, Richard D'Oyly Carte, Cesar Ritz. But check in today at thousands of U.S. hostelries, including Hiltons, Sheratons and Marriotts, and your innkeeper will belong to a far more somber group: Citicorp, Wells Fargo Bank, Travelers insurance and others...