Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With his stocky build, thick neck and gravelly voice, Salvatore Gravano lives up to his nickname, "Sammy the Bull." But as he said on the witness stand last week, his enemies are more likely to start calling him by a new moniker, "Sammy the Rat." In five days of often chilling testimony, the former Gambino family underboss calmly described the secret inner workings and rituals of La Cosa Nostra and provided gory details of the 19 killings he admitted taking part in. Most of all, he tried to hammer nails into the legal coffin of John Gotti, the head...
...Gotti's success with juries in the past, Gravano suggested that there may have been more to it than luck. The Bull claims to have personally handled a $60,000 bribe for one of the jurors who acquitted Gotti in 1987. The juror was charged last month with obstruction of justice in the alleged bribe-taking incident. At the present trial, jurors are identified only by number and are sequestered in an undisclosed location guarded by federal marshals. Even so, Judge I. Leo Glasser replaced two of them last week with alternates after they asked to be excused...
...cross-examination of Gravano, Gotti's attorney Albert Krieger tried to paint the Bull as a traitorous opportunist who betrayed a longtime friend because he feared for his own neck. Krieger asked Gravano if people in his old Brooklyn neighborhood had a word for someone like...
...Kings will also discern the phantom signatures of a few revered auteurs. "I like Bob Fosse's films very much," Glimcher says. "So the strip joint in my film and the close-up of a decrepit stripper's knee give off echoes of Sweet Charity. Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull is a film that means the world to me, and when you first see Cathy Moriarty here, she's wearing the upswept hairdo from Raging Bull." In the audience's mind -- which blends past and present, actress and character -- Moriarty can walk out of Jake La Motta's life...
...Peterson's commitment to undergraduates at Harvard has gone far beyond shooting the bull in his third-floor Littauer office and holding seminars in his Belmont home. From February 1987 to June 1990--a remarkably long tenure--he was the Head Tutor of the Government Department. In those three and a half years, the number of government concentrators increased 45 percent--the biggest boom the department has seen in decades. Peterson oversaw it all, and took an active role in restructuring the department...