Word: capo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sliding outside the foul lines and getting its uniform soiled. The combatants are Fay Vincent, the eighth commissioner of baseball, and the majority of team owners, who have chafed under his three-year reign. In Chicago last week, the dissidents convened an extraordinary meeting -- an Apalachin summit of every capo di tutti baseball capi -- and told Vincent, 54, to clean out his locker. By a vote of 18 to 9 (with one abstention), the owners declared that "the major league clubs do not have confidence" in Vincent's ability "to carry out the responsibilities of the office of the commissioner...
That leaves the remaining capos jockeying for position, a scramble that began long before the trial was announced. With such enormous stakes, the godfather race could touch off a Gambino war. Three candidates lead the field. Capo James "Jimmy Brown" Failla has a strong track record in running the ; lucrative private garbage-carting business, but at 73 he may lack the stamina for big-time crime. Joseph "Butch" Corrao can cite success in overseeing gambling, restaurants and loan-sharking in Manhattan's Little Italy. Then there is John Gotti Jr., 28, cut from the same cloth as his father...
...helped kill Salvatore Testa, the youngest Mafia capo in America and one of your best friends. How could you do such a thing...
...ghostwriter Laurence Shames' imagery is so hard-boiled it could be served at picnics. (When Gloria, the maid, dropped a steak into hot oil, "it sizzled like a soul in hell.") But the story is fast paced, and the vivid vignettes include the immortal words of a Cosa Nostra capo who was once asked if his beef shipments contained horsemeat. "Well," he answered, "some of it moos and some...
...Vincent Mancini (Andy Garcia), the bastard son of Michael's brother Sonny, shows up ready to bite the ear off any idle Mafioso, Michael tells him, "I don't need tough guys. I need more lawyers." But in his negotiations with a crafty padrone (Eli Wallach), with a gaudy capo (Joe Mantegna), even with some slippery Vatican officials over a European real estate deal, Michael decides he needs tough guys. The question is: Can he still be tough enough to lead them...