Word: gangsterisms
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Colombo's career as a gangster also could provide a plausible motive?revenge. One product of his years as a member of the assassination team of Joseph Profaci, head of a New York family, is a list of victims' relatives?young men orphaned by contract, brothers bound to avenge a family murder?who would like to see Colombo killed. His rise in the Mob hierarchy has also earned him the bitter enmity of former comrades, notably Joseph ("Crazy Joe") Gallo, onetime Profaci triggerman whom Colombo opposed during a bloody gang war in the early...
...Sullen, spiritually bankrupt, he blurs the distinction between criminal and keeper. When a young colleague is murdered, Favenin cracks. With deranged courage, he preempts the entire legal profession-cop, lawyer, judge, jury, executioner-and runs the gang to earth, ritualistically following the sanguinary vitality of the ancient Warner Bros, gangster movies...
Because of Castro's gangster connections, the middle-class democrats of Havana (lawyers, doctors and merchants) consistently underrated him, believing that nobody would flock to such a banner. When their own children did just that, they at least half believed Castro's protestations in his mountain redoubt that he was just another liberal like themselves. Castro cleverly avoided tests of arms with Batista, correctly perceiving, as Thomas puts it, that he was conducting not primarily guerrilla warfare but rather "a political campaign in a tyranny, with the campaigner being defended by armed...
Died. Glenda Farrell, 66, actress; of lung cancer; in Manhattan. Often cast as a tough babe with hair and heart of gold, Farrell began her screen career as a gangster's moll in the 1930 film classic Little Caesar. She went on to wisecrack her way through scores of Hollywood movies, including I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), Gold Diggers of 1937 and the Torchy Blane series. Weary of being typecast, she made a deft transition in the 1950s to motherly roles on television and Broadway...
...Gray Flannel Suit. But the double irony is that propriety has now become its own parody. While the children of the league labor to prove how sober, hardworking, puritanical they are, the children of the Mayflower, dressed in a travesty of the 1930s' Italian-gangster wardrobe, are straining twice as hard (from Swiss ski lodges to Caribbean beaches) to prove they are, at heart, impulsive Latin playboys...