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...that he should read it as Z but would always stand ready to switch it to the real meaning, inside the real meaning of the false meaning, which he would read as M." Pop is Angelo Partanna, consigliere to the nation's most puissant Mafia family. His son Charley is underboss and chief enforcer for the family, a geratic Brooklyn Mob headed by Corrado Prizzi, 84. Charley, the anti-hero of Prizzi's Honor, is somewhat deficient in the paternal paranoia that has helped earn the gang international clout and an annual gross income of $1.7 billion. However...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heel over Head | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

Harvard suffered a number of casualties during the game Former captain John Dorgan pulled out a halftime with a charley horse Sophomore Gus Spanos broke his leg tore ligaments in his ankle and now wears a cast from ankle to crotch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 5/3/1982 | See Source »

Laschen's assigned sidekick, a good-time Charley photographer who has qualms neither visceral nor moral about making a profession of photographing severed limbs, deals with the situation by not thinking about it. Laschen, mouth he claims, "I don't write what I think. I write what I see. It doesn't matter what I think," starts to believe that maybe it does matter. He realizes the outrage of bidding against a rival reporter for photos of carnage, but he does it anyway. He is genuinely disturbed when he realizes the execution of a family has been staged specifically...

Author: By Susan R. Moffat, | Title: Angst, Ennui, Et Al | 4/6/1982 | See Source »

...injuries--Greg Olson's charley horse and Scotty Powers' sprained ankle--plus captain Mike Watson's losing battle with the flu, left the Crimson literally down a few men against the Eagles. Cleary was forced to juggle three of his lines, not something a coach likes to do before a game with a team like powerful...

Author: By Michael Bass, | Title: Boston College Hypnotizes Icemen, 4-3 | 1/6/1982 | See Source »

...worst news for Harvard entering tonight's game is the injury report. Greg Olson continues to suffer from a severe leg bruise and charley horse suffered in the first Western Michigan game, and may or may not see action. In addition, Scott Powers, who scored the decisive goal in a 6-5 overtime win at Porvidence, banged up his ankle two days ago in practice and is definitely out for at least a few more days...

Author: By Michael Bass, | Title: Boston College to Visit Alexander Bright Tonight | 1/5/1982 | See Source »

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