Word: capucci
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...almost any standard there was something suspicious about Ilarion Capucci. Driving his black Mercedes-Benz, he crossed from Israel into Jordan and Lebanon at least 50 times in the past year. Last April he claimed that more than $750,000 in cash was stolen from his Jerusalem residence. When police investigated the theft, Capucci insisted that the money had been returned, and asked them to drop the matter. His behavior seemed particularly strange because he is an archbishop of the Melchite Catholic Church (which is autonomous from but in union with Roman Catholicism, and recognizes the Pope as premier patriarch...
Israeli security officers finally moved this month against the 52-year-old, Syrian-born archbishop, who had changed his name to the Italianate Capucci from his family's Turkish name, Kapugi. As he re-entered Jerusalem from one of his trips into Lebanon, agents found stashed away under the seats, in the trunk and inside the doors of his car dozens of pounds of explosives, detonators, four Soviet-made automatic rifles, two pistols, bullets and grenades...
...everybody to shut their [sic] eyes and pretend they [sic] were a farm worker's wife in the dusty plains of Delano, California, eating baloney sandwiches for breakfast at 3 a. m. before heading out into the fields. . . . So they all stood there in their Pucci dresses, Gucci shoes, Capucci scarves, either imagining they were grape workers' wives or wondering if the goddamned wind would ever stop. The wind had come up off the ocean and it was wrecking everybody's hair. People were standing there with their Hands pressed against their heads as if the place had been struck...
Thus, in addition to the debacle at the Bernsteins', Radical Chic brought on the party that Assemblyman Andrew Stein gave for a few striking Mexican-American grape workers on his father's estate in Southampton. The select "all stood there in their Pucci dresses, Gucci shoes. Capucci scarves. The wind had come up off the ocean and it was wrecking everybody's hair. People were standing there with their hands pressed against their heads as if the place had been struck by a brain-piercing ray from the Purple Dimension." And in Wolfe's view...