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...major evidence in the Gotti case was provided through a bugging scheme worthy of a James Bond movie. In 1984 Gambino Soldier Dominick Lofaro, 56, was arrested in upstate New York on heroin charges. Facing a 20-year sentence, he agreed to become a Government informant. Investigators wired him with a tiny microphone taped to his chest and a miniature cassette recorder, no bigger than two packs of gum, that fitted into the small of his back without producing a bulge. Equipped with a magnetic switch on a cigarette lighter to activate the recorder, Lofaro coolly discussed Gambino family affairs...
Federal Judge Eugene Nickerson disclosed that a trusted member of Gotti's Gambino crime family had secretly taped conversations between the capo and his confederates over a 30-month period. The informant, a self-styled former hit man named Dominick Lofaro, was brazen enough to carry a concealed wire right into Gotti's lair, the Bergen Hunt and Fish Club in Ozone Park, N.Y. His cooperation with authorities marked the first time that a Mafia "soldier" had ever worked as an informant while on active duty. The intelligence coup, said one New York City police officer, was "like penetrating...
...trends so often are. In Chicago, the current rage is jicama (pronounced hee-kahmah), a knobby, earth-colored tuber from Mexico; it looks rather like a giant water chestnut, which is just about what this crisp, icy salad vegetable tastes like. Jicama has been heavily promoted at the 87 Dominick's supermarkets, with good results. "We used to sell a case per store every other week or so," says Mario Zullo, the chain's head produce buyer. "Now we sell two to three cases per store each week. It has become a part of our everyday produce." Nor is jicama...
...letters of their surnames. In an opera as dependent as this on sure- handed pastiche, Werle's parodies of American lounge acts and soulful Russian folk songs consistently fall flat. Surely, the company that premiered Conrad Susa's magical chamber opera Transformations in 1973 and has championed resident Composer Dominick Argento could have chosen a better piece for this occasion. Perhaps Argento's Casanova's Homecoming, scheduled for April, will prove to be such a work. A performing space like the Ordway deserves...
...productions staged for her. Instead, she concentrated on her "first love," recitals. She is booked on recital tours through 1987, allowing her to indulge a longstanding predilection both for spirituals and for songs by such contemporary composers as Samuel Barber, John La Montaine, Ned Rorem, Margaret Bonds and Dominick Argento. Price also is scheduled to give a series of master classes in San Francisco in 1986. When dealing with sopranos, retirement is a term best understood loosely: five days after her operatic farewell, Price rushes off to St. Paul to help inaugurate the Ordway Music Theater with a recital...