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...know, sometimes it takes a year to kill a guy. Sometimes it takes a week. That's because Scarfo was a cowboy. He didn't want a guy taken in a house and shot easily in the back of the head. He wanted it outside, in broad daylight, with a million people around. Restaurants, funeral homes, anywhere. Then it gets written up in the papers, and it puts fear in people. He loved that cowboy stuff. He had a big fan club. He used to get letters from black guys who wanted to join the Mob. We had a filing...
Other neighbors said that the group of houses and apartments in the area had already experienced one break-in during this academic year and several others in recent years. One resident reported that he installed an alarm system after a daylight burglary several years...
...example. Such leaders gave an eloquence and resonance to the Old Paradigm -- a powerful accumulation of moral experience. It is possible to feel wistful sometimes for those profound frames of reference while wandering around in the New Paradigm, which is almost by definition callow. You must not let daylight in upon magic. Now that information is transnational, daylight pours in. Certain shadowy and thunderous effects upon which charisma and old leadership depended have now become impossible. The New Paradigm is not haunted by the furies and ghosts of its parents. It looks upon the world with a disconcerting alien...
...harder for a traveler in the Soviet Union to find someone who has anything good to say about Mikhail Gorbachev than it was for Diogenes the Cynic, in his wanderings through the streets of Athens in broad daylight with a lantern, to find an honest man. Gorbachev's unpopularity can be understood only as part of what is happening to the country as a whole, no matter who tries to govern from the Kremlin...
Kevin's first reaction is ecstasy. He turns his parents' bed into a trampoline, devours mountains of ice cream, looks at the forbidden photos in Playboy ("No clothes on anybody. Sickening"). His excitement wanes with the daylight, however, all the more so since most of the neighbors on his affluent block have also gone away for the holidays. What most scares a child? The bogeyman, of course, and Hughes supplies two comical would-be burglars (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern), one of whom has posed as a policeman to find out when the family would be gone. By the time...