Word: gangsterisms
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...name, especially when they want to make some one more vivid hi their minds. Where would baseball be without Goose, hockey without Boom Boom, football without Mean Joe? Common criminals would sound like common criminals were there no Machine Gun, Killer or Mad Dog among them. Not that all gangster names are so picturesque. Nathan Kaplan's monicker was "Kid Dropper" for reasons too awful to contemplate. And Al Capone was known as the Millionaire Gorilla, though it is hard to picture some floozie chucking him under the chin and cooing, "Come on, you big, bad Millionaire Gorilla...
...Sicily. Police at a Palermo airport once seized two suitcases containing $497,000 in crisp U.S. bills before they could be delivered to a mysterious trafficker known to authorities only as a "tall man with red hair speaking with a Milanese accent." On another occasion, police stopped a local gangster as he was attempting to cash two certified checks that were issued by a Brooklyn bank and totaled more than...
...films are best seen as rickety star vehicles. His most shining star-his Bette Davis, his Gloria Swanson, his Joan Blondell-is his wife Gena Rowlands. In Gloria, he has finally realized her strengths and her limitations, and has cranked out a passable imitation of those '30s gangster movies with brassy broads and sassy tots, a Methodical Little Miss Marked Woman...
...startling juxtaposition: starving dogs amid baronial splendor. When Joe decides to help Clara escape from her involuntary servitude, he steals a 1933 Mercedes from Bennett and starts driving through a landscape of blighted hopes and lives. He fears pursuit by Bennett; he is also worried that Clara's gangster friend may want her back. The last place Bennett would look, Joe decides, is at his own auto plant. But does Joe really take a job there of his own free will, as he believes? Or have the enormous forces of wealth and crime conspired to crush...
...managers, Tekere was stymied. For one thing, he faced an impossible level of 57% unemployment. Not-so-old hatreds began to resurface when changes were slow to occur. Drinking heavily, he began straying ever further from Mugabe's pragmatic politics. He accused more moderate black leaders of a "gangster mentality and leadership decay." He began to speak of himself as his party's "conscience...