Word: crimeeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coal. Man and boy go into the mines and die; mother and wife wait for the sound of their men coming home, or for the fatal word that they won't. Life has pressed all hope out of these faces -- to smile would be a crime against remorseless nature -- though there is no free time for despair. The miners have been taught to accept their miserable lot and fear the company, which owns their houses and furniture and food, as they fear % God. What would it take for them to fight back? Maybe the quiet rhetoric of a union organizer...
...mobsters in the past year, federal prosecutors unveiled a new tactic last week: suing the Mafia for damages. In a unique use of federal racketeering laws, U.S. Attorney Andrew J. Maloney asked a federal judge to seize Mob-tied businesses in an attempt to break up the Bonanno crime organization, one of New York's five Mafia families. Among the alleged fronts: three hotels and a taxi company, which officials say were bought with money from the family's gambling, loan-sharking and drug networks. It was the first time a Mafia family has been treated as a legal entity...
...fiction writer, but he is surely the tallest. So are his tales, from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, his wacko 1979 cult favorite, to this delightfully busy mystery, set in the present but wandering through past and future. Dirk Gently, the holistic detective ("We solve the whole crime; we find the whole person"), is diverted from a career of finding vanished cats by a daunting assignment: assist a former Cambridge classmate who is wanted for murder and -- oh, yes -- save the human race from impending extinction. The yarn embraces time travel, ghostly possession, quantum mechanics, musical theory, computer...
...nine members of the Sandinista directorate, Interior Minister Tomas Borge seemed to try to undercut Ortega's public relations offensive last week. After Ortega announced that the priests could return, Borge declared that the 30-day jail sentences imposed on two opposition leaders last month were "not commutable." Their crime: staging a protest rally in Managua without a permit. Sandinista officials privately acknowledged that police use of electric prods and attack dogs to break up the rally had been heavy-handed...
...real name is Kevin Costner, and this backseat sizzler with Sean Young from the hit political thriller No Way Out has people lining up at movie theaters across the country. With a startlingly different look as the intrepid crime crusader Eliot Ness, Costner is also drawing crowds to The Untouchables. < These bookend summer successes have cinched his status as Hollywood's new romantic leading man. With his tall, rangy good looks and cool American strength, Costner, 32, is an old-fashioned movie hero. Like such stars as Gary Cooper, Clark Gable and Jimmy Stewart, he can fill the screen with...