Word: gangsterisms
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...Lift. Dr. Sadusk estimated that at least 8 billion amphetamine tablets are produced each year, and that no less than half of them go into illegal, nonprescription channels, for sale under the counter at bars, gas stations and restaurants. The profits are enough to give even the surliest gangster an amphetamine lift: he can buy the tablets wholesale for $1 a thousand or less, and resell them at $30 to $50 a thousand, while the illicit retailer sells them at a nickel or a dime apiece and takes in from $50 to $100 a thousand...
...SHAM AND THE PHARAOHS: WOOLY BULLY. Sam, who comes from Dallas, plays a jazzy organ and travels by hearse with his harum-scarum pharaohs, who sing falsetto or blow the sax. Wooly Bully is their runaway hit, but there are other lightheaded numbers like Gangster of Love and a Latin piece by Sam called Juimonos (meaning "Let's Went" in slangy Spanish...
More than 20,000 odometered miles later, the Rolls turns up in Genoa. Climbing aboard are a U.S. gangster (George C. Scott) and his moll (Shirley MacLaine), both battling Scenarist Terence Rattigan's notion of dialogue for ugly Americans. "So it leans," cracks Shirley at the tower of Pisa. The fun picks up when Scott returns to the States to eradicate a business associate, leaving his two snazzy chassis in the care of Bodyguard Art Carney. On a swimming expedition, Shirley and the Rolls are left unguarded just long enough to entertain Alain Delon, utterly persuasive as a gigolo...
...long as the action is confined to Madcap Melba charming a cop out of giving her a parking ticket, or a gangster into surrendering a restaurant phone, the story is readable enough and lively. But Rona Jaffe intends more. The mousy girl friend is in analysis and given to morose dissections of her emotions, ranging from jealousy of Melba to frustration about the men who get away. She has a strange preoccupation with necrophilia. When one romance collapses, the mousy girl laments that "social graces are dead, shyness is dead, chivalry is dead, game playing is dead, necking is dead...
...officials notified the Cambridge Police, since the student had violated state and federal laws. They were also concerned for his safety, because he reported being threatened repeatedly by his source. One University official described the marijuana source as "a gangster with bad connections...