Word: gangsterisms
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...sexual perversion. Dramatically he was an antagonist who functioned as a powerfully clarifying force, resolving, vivifying all the movie's ambiguities. There is just no one like him here, though Ruben Blades, the singer who is turning into a delicately ironic actor, might have fulfilled the role if his gangster character had been more fully developed. Unfortunately, like everyone else in this huge, wasted effort, he is merely glimpsed wandering in a labyrinth that never draws us into its enigmas and finally stupefies both curiosity and involvement...
...cannot yet be told. By April 1982, I had finished another rough draft. But on Oct. 11, 1982, the entire manuscript -- 500 typewritten pages Lusia had brought back from Moscow and 900 handwritten pages I had recently completed -- was again stolen, this time by what can only be called gangster methods...
...Azra (Sinolicka Trpkova). He must do it quickly, before Merdzan can get his lecherous hands on her. "Make sure her feet don't see more sky than earth," Perhan warns Grandma when he hires himself out to the richest, meanest man in town. Ahmed (Bora Todorovic) is a blustery gangster who will teach Perhan the rules of petty crime but will take a long time to learn how fierce are the strains of loyalty and revenge in his brightest pupil. Ahmed will finally get the point on the day he dies: his wedding...
...gang's power to terrorize was slipping. One gangster claimed to have taken out a $3,000 "contract," which came to nothing; another pointed a pistol at the Rodriguez home -- but was arrested. "Despite all the bad things that have happened, I still believe in the system," says the amazingly resilient Rodriguez. "I actually look forward to the neighborhood getting cleaned...
...composer who drives a Cadillac. But he has worked hard for his popularity, and he still does. His tenth string quartet premiered last year, and Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax will tour four cities with his cello-and-piano sonata in May. Casino Paradise (an opera about a gangster "that's more or less like a musical") premieres in Philadelphia in April. Other coming works: a "baby opera" about Mozart's librettist Lorenzo da Ponte; a song cycle of poems by American women for Marilyn Horne; and a clarinet concerto for Stanley Drucker and the New York Philharmonic...