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...scouting hotels that are up for sale and have invested in some bars and pizza parlors. U.S. Attorney Jonathan Goldstein expects increased Mob involvement in Atlantic City service industries: linen supply, liquor distribution and the like. The Gambino men are pushing aside local gangsters who work for Angelo Bruno, Philadelphia's ailing and unimposing Mafia don. Had Bruno been stronger, the invasion might not have occurred. To mollify Bruno, the New Yorkers are willing to toss his people some Atlantic City scraps?services like garbage hauling, vending machines and pest control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: THE MAFIA Big, Bad and Booming | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

...makes some starts in the right direction. He has a dotty King known as Bruno the Questionable. A monster terrifying Bruno's realm is reported to be so horrible that he is capable of turning a man's teeth white overnight. And the story of a cooper's young apprentice, filled with enthusiasm for modern ways, who finds the medieval city no more interested in him than his native village, is serviceable enough?especially as Python Michael Palin plays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gilliam the Questionable | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...French, Italian and Spanish Communist parties, which profess to favor a thoroughgoing democratic pathway to power. But they can hardly claim democratic credentials unless they are unreservedly outspoken about repression in Communist countries. ("They have yet to show proof of their alleged democratic spirit," says Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky.) On the other hand, going too far in condemning Moscow and other Communist capitals could make them seem traitors to the Communist cause. Early this month, Italian Party Chief Enrico Berlinguer, addressing 3,000 workers in Milan, stressed "our criticism of certain 'authoritarian features' in the political regimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUMAN RIGHTS: THE DISSIDENTS V. MOSCOW | 2/21/1977 | See Source »

Stan Hansen, a sea creature (called cul-de-sac-of-pus by his friends) so guileless and cunning that he shouldn't even be allowed to make neurological decongestant ads or even be on welfare, one-two-threed his way into a state of protoplasmic regret when Bruno finished dicing him through the Great Steel Cage. He actually ripped Hanson's face off--yanked the pulpy flesh right off his doggone skull. Ex-transvestite. Hansen, whose eyes had long since disappeared to leave only streams of orange blood, mistook a kindly referree for his phantom foe. But he didn...

Author: By N. NASH Eberstadt, | Title: Trans-Sexual Athletes: Battle of the Chromosomes? | 12/9/1976 | See Source »

...anyway, Bruno has raised the purple hem, revealing that when he tires of the Men's Worldwide Heavyweight Title, he's going for the Women...

Author: By N. NASH Eberstadt, | Title: Trans-Sexual Athletes: Battle of the Chromosomes? | 12/9/1976 | See Source »

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