Word: brooklyn
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...genealogy reveals that the New York City mafia powerhouse of the 20th century emerged from a chance encounter on a Brooklyn side street. The year was 1916, and 14-year-old Meyer Lansky was running errands for his father when he accidentally discovered young Benjamin "Bugsy" Seigel in the process of getting his butt kicked by Salvatore Lucania, soon to become Charles "Lucky" Luciano. After beating Luciano over the head with a monkey wrench until he calmed down, Lansky proceeded to befriend Seigel and eventually found the infamous hit squad Murder Inc., While Luciano built a prostitution (hence the nickname...
...crises. But Uhry adds vinegar in the form of a sharply observed portrait of upper-middle-class Jews in the pre-World War II South. Theirs was a tricky dance of assimilation and accommodation, in which older families, like Lala's, scorned newer immigrants, represented by the kid from Brooklyn who has just gone to work for the family business. Uhry juggles a lot of elements with no evident strain: creating a believable family that seems both quirky and emblematic; exploring issues of Jewish self-hatred; giving hints of The Glass Menagerie and then taking a sharp right turn. Hollywood...
...same with professional sports. My tenth grade math teacher in New York is the world's second biggest Dodgers fan (behind Danny Kaye). He was a big fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers back in the 1940s and 1950s, one of the New York liberals who started following the Dodgers after they signed Jackie Robinson...
...sports bar in Brooklyn that was sued for calling itself "The Brooklyn Dodger" had some beef (no pun intended) when it said the Brooklyn Dodgers no longer exist and that Los Angeles has no claim on the name...
Just as Jackie Robinson made him a Brooklyn Dodgers fan, Duke Snider and other ghosts of the team he loved made him a Los Angeles Dodgers...