Word: franked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these values, and by raising the use of stereotypes for debate, seeks to engage in a critical evaluation of a set of ideas and images. Certainly the allegations put forward are serious and deserve careful and thoughtful consideration. In evaluating these allegations, the representatives who met had vigorous and frank discussions about the material in question. It is then the purpose of this report to present a brief account of the issues in debate, an opinion of the arguments and material put forward and suggestions for the future...
...York's families are still named for the men who ran them in the 1950s and '60s, though all are either dead or retired. The clans and their current leaders: Bonanno family (headed by Carmine Galante), Colombo family (Thomas DiBella), Gambino family (Aniello Dellacroce), Genovese family (Frank Tieri) and Lucchese family (Anthony Corallo...
...remote candidate to become New York's crime czar is Galante's former boss, Joseph Bonanno. His age (71) works against his ambitions. So did the murder in February of Frank ("Bomp") Bompensiero, who was Bonanno's chief ally on the West Coast?and an FBI informer. Bomp was one of the 20 people who have been executed over the past two years by professional hit men armed with silencer-equipped .22-cal. pistols (TIME, April...
...clan was Jack Dragna's family in Los Angeles. When Dragna's nephew Louis turned down a chance to become boss in 1974 ?he was promptly dubbed "the Reluctant Prince"?the Outfit and New York's Gambino clan made an extraordinary agreement to exploit the West together. Frank Bompensiero, consigliere (chief adviser) of the fading Dragna family, outlined the arrangement to the FBI before he was executed...
...Such a frank and brutal story of prison life would present a tough challenge to any director, let alone an undergraduate one. But Dan Riviera has an intelligent and mature grasp of the delicate tension here between comedy and dead, dead seriousness. So while some problems with execution do come up, he never lets the production seem amateurish...