Word: gangsterisms
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...Carter, Michael Caine in a gangster film. UFO Orson Welles...
...college humor, but it is a good deal more: the fond, wondering recollection of a double exile, a man separated by circumstance from his country and by a decade and more from his youth. (Author Cabrera Infante, 42, is a leftist who regards Castro as a Stalinist and a gangster, and now lives in London.) His book is a remarkably good novel of memory, and it is memory that splits the images and works the magnifications, producing the prose pratfalls, the crosscutting of parody and boozy interior monologue, the bits of trivia in two languages worn smooth like lucky stones...
Quiet Combat. Yet Kennedy had an insatiable appetite for action and a knack for getting his department to move. If politics prevented the application of total vigah to promoting the civil rights movement, there was no pro-gangster lobby to impede new methods of assault on big bad guys. His own experience as the investigator had given him a taste for gangbusting. To carry it out, Kennedy first had to persuade the FBI that organized crime existed (Hoover had been a doubter). The bureau, long a self-governed island within the department, reluctantly agreed to enlist -though...
...letting it get any further than the inevitable city room locker jokes. In the news columns of the fifties, Liz Renay was variously described as "glamorous," "beauteous," "redhead," or "blonde," as an "acquaintance," "playgirl," "entertainer," or "stripper," as an "acquaintance," "girlfriend," or "date" of gambler Mickey Cohen and gangster Anthony Coppola...
...What's a Mafioso gangster like Joseph Sr. doing with a nice Italian name like Colombo...