Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Whether Martinelli, with this ill-advised remark, is practicing pit-bull politics for the Cambridge Civic Association or just for himself, I deplore the comment. There's nothing progressive about it. It turns back the clock to a time when Boston politics was marred by bitter ethnic divisions...
...sacred brotherhood. Well, fuhgedaboudit. Every time you turn around lately, a member of the Mafia is turning around: testifying at a trial, wearing a bug, writing a book. Whatever life omerta had left in its blood-drained body ebbed away last week with the stunning disclosure that Salvatore (Sammy Bull) Gravano, the most trusted adviser to reputed Gambino boss John Gotti, has become the Federal Government's latest protected flipster. If juries find him believable, Gravano could obliterate the entire hierarchy of the Gambinos, New York City's largest crime family with more than 400 members and thousands of associates...
...pals visited Gravano at his home on Staten Island, where Gravano thanked them for a job well done, according to the debriefing. While Gravano hasn't been charged in that case, Leonetti's promised testimony, along with wiretap evidence of other crimes, may have been what sent Sammy Bull running for protection...
Then there was the yellow bio of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney (popularity rating 13%, a new record), which noted that in 1962 the would-be PM had a job as a courier for contraband bull semen...
...Raging Bull--in the Winthrop dining hall at 8 and 10 p.m. Admission...