Word: gangsterisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...negotiate in earnest for the emeralds? "Nyet," declared two of the Russians. The disagreement between the mine operators and bureaucrats might have been resolved by paying off both sides, but the foreigner's previous visit had aroused dangerous interest among the locals. A mafia group headed by a fearsome gangster nicknamed the Gorilla had got wind of the deal and was demanding a piece of any sale. The curiosity of the local KGB had also been piqued, and it too had no intention of permitting the emeralds to change hands without taking...
...monkey bars in a neighborhood playground "because he didn't want to be in a gang." Says Goodwin: "I want the sweeps. There be too many guns in our buildings." Around Easter they went off at an especially horrifying rate: after a truce between the Black Disciples and Gangster Disciples gangs apparently broke down, police recorded more than 300 shooting incidents in the Robert Taylor Homes and Stateway Gardens in only four days. In Stateway Gardens, Juanita Bishop counts five other tenants she knew who were killed by guns and says, "I'm for the whole sweep. Then we could...
Charles Manson was, as usual, a satanic spellbinder, giving enigmatic nonanswers and snarling at interviewer Diane Sawyer: "I'm a gangster, woman!" Two former members of his "family," Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten, were, by contrast, rational and remorseful. "I stabbed him with a fork repeatedly and eventually left the fork in him," said Krenwinkel, describing her part in the Tate-La Bianca murders. "I don't believe any of us had any concept of really what we were doing...
...screen. With the two opposing forces in his life the audience supposedly sees the Roemello's conflict. But the way the story runs it feels as though the writer and director could not make up their mind whether they wanted a love story or a gangster movie. When one seems to be progressing nicely, the film cut to the other. I have never seen the two genres successfully integrated, save once, with Martin Scorcese's "Goodfellas." "Sugar Hill" certainly does not live up to the standards of that Oscar winner...
...bondage subtext that climaxes with Jack handcuffed to a bed and Mona in dominatrix black leather. Possibly writer Hilary Henkin sees Mona as a woman empowered by a brutal feminism. Possibly director Peter Medak, who specializes in Eurotrash artiness, sees the film as an upscale gloss on the gangster genre. Everyone else will observe that in structure and intent it is soft-core porn and, since it is written by a woman, something for Andrea Dworkin and Catherine MacKinnon to ponder...