Word: gangsterisms
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...Gangster Movie...
...James Earl Ray prison escape [June 20] started out like a plot from an oldtime gangster movie, but that's where the script ends. No getaway vehicle or airplane to fly out of the country...
Bertolt Brecht sought refuge in the U.S. in 1941 and went to Hollywood "to join the market where lies are bought." Happy End, a musical written in 1929, resembles nothing so much as an oldtime, screwball gangster movie. A rollicking revival staged recently at the Brooklyn Academy of Music has now been admirably transferred to Broadway's Martin Beck Theater...
Then, in March 1975, a gangster named Louis Almeida was arrested for carrying weapons equipped with silencers and received a ten-year sentence. In exchange for the chance of getting an early parole, judicial immunity and protection, Almeida agreed to testify about past crimes. One was the murder of William Logan. Almeida told the police he had driven Aleman to Logan's home. Officials surmised that Aleman was after Logan because the Teamster had refused to help steal truck cargoes...
...rackets. At home, a Mafioso cultivates the image of a solid, churchgoing, charity-supporting citizen (see box). On the job, he keeps up a flashy front by wining and dining associates at expensive restaurants and resorts. Nearly every important Mob figure sports a well-kept mistress at gangster affairs. The dichotomy of Mafia life was nowhere seen better than at a flashy Manhattan restaurant where mobsters used to entertain their wives and children on Sunday afternoons and return in the evening with their girl friends...