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...investing widely in police, legislators and legitimate businesses, "Uncle Frank" became a power in New York City politics. He managed to elude any major convictions until his reluctance to testify fully before Senator Estes Kefauver's crime investigating committee cost him a 14-month prison term for contempt of Congress. He later served a 31/2-year term for income tax evasion. After an unsuccessful gangland attempt on his life in 1957, and a long, successful battle against deportation, Costello spent his last decade in quiet retirement, cultivating his Long Island garden...
...Carlos was left with his father, a shadowy figure whom he mentions in the books with a mixture of fondness and pity shaded with contempt. His father's weakness of will is the obverse to the "impeccability" of his adopted father, Don Juan. Castaneda describes his father's efforts to become a writer as a farce of indecision. But, he adds, "I am my father. Before I met Don Juan I would spend years sharpening my pen cils, and then getting a headache every time I sat down to write. Don Juan taught me that's stupid. If you want...
...wife. But he eventually fell $2,550 behind. Brought before Judge Robert W. Lar-row, Chicoine claimed he did not have the money. The judge said that there was evidence he had $90,000 stashed away, and ordered him to pay. Chicoine refused. That meant that he was in contempt of a court order, and Judge Larrow threw him into jail. Chicoine has been an inmate ever since-for a total of five years and four months...
...workers and students. In his contemptuous descriptions of my criticisms of the lack of consumer products in East Germany, Swanson doesn't even mention that this lack was an obsessive concern of East German people, which came up again and again in conversations as representative of the contempt the East German rulers showed for their people...
This Richard may be a monster. Yet how heroic and finally touching a monster Pacino makes him, trapped between his unappeasable self-contempt and his perverse ambition to have others honor him as supreme human being, as King - even if he has to kill half of England in order to stage what he, more than all other men, knows to be a hollow charade...