Word: gangsterisms
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...Phillip is far from satisfied. To his gangster employer Alonzo, "Phillip is a moody man, but he's a genius, so it's forgiven. "Unfortunately, Phillip's inquietude is more than temperament. For him. The American Dream has become a low-budget horror movie titled something like "The Revenge of Morpheus...
...small, squalid mind of Stavros Topouzoglou there seems not a scintilla of that diamantine nobility ascribed,to the Grecian soul. As his employer, an Armenian, says, "A fellow like you, here, has to be an anarchist, a boxer or a gangster." In fact, all Stavros ever wants to be is rich. Much has happened to him since he landed in New York in America America, published in 1962. The immigrant is now 32, the year is 1909, and Anatolian-born Stavros, or Joe Arness, as his American friends call him, has finally saved up enough money to bring his whole...
...Fred Furino, 52, an important witness in Special Prosecutor Leon Silverman's probe into Donovan's alleged ties to the Mafia, was murdered. His decaying body, with at least one bullet wound in the head, was found in a car abandoned in New York City. A career gangster, Furino had been intensively questioned by Silverman's investigators and called before a federal grand jury hearing Silverman's witnesses. The investigators suspect that other mobsters feared that Furino had been cooperating with federal officials. Furino may not have been, but the Mob takes no chances...
...13th day on the lake, why not just stay here all year? Set up as a fishing guide. Open a lodge. We'll take the savings and . . . The soul at odd moments (the third trout, the fourth beer) will make woozy rushes at the pipe dream. Like a gangster who has cooperated with the district attorney, we want a new name and a new career and a new house in a different city - and maybe a new nose from the D.A.'s cosmetic surgeon...
...Senate committee released a summary of the uncovered FBI information late last week. It included allegations by an informant in Newark that Donovan, when he was executive vice president in charge of labor relations for Schiavone Construction Co., was a friend and traveling companion of New Jersey Gangster Salvatore ("Sally Bugs") Briguglio. The informant said Briguglio, in return for payoffs, gave Donovan information about low bids on Government construction contracts, which he learned of through Government contacts, so that Donovan could underbid. At his confirmation hearings, Donovan three times denied ever meeting Briguglio, the victim of a Mob execution...