Word: gangsterized
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...Tone Rolls. Someone else might well have been Bobby Darin. The incumbent, born Walden Robert Cassotto in The Bronx in 1936, contracted a near-fatal case of rheumatic fever at the age of eight. His father, described by Darin as a small-scale gangster, died before Bobby was born. Supported by his mother's relief money, he grew up in one of Manhattan's toughest and poorest neighborhoods, steadily refused membership in district gangs, studied hard and learned to play the drums, won admission to the excellent Bronx High School of Science. During vacations, he picked up show...
Breathless. A cubistic gangster film, with all the crazy humor, anarchic beauty and irrational coherence of a nightmare...
Breathless. A cubistic gangster film, with all the crazy humor, anarchic beauty and irrational coherence of a nightmare...
...night that shadows Harlem's filth and fear, two 1960 Ford station wagons raced north on the New York State Thruway toward Tarrytown and the comfortable hilltop home of James Arthur Vaus Jr., an ex-convict once known as a wiretapper for West Coast Gangster Mickey Cohen. From the 'cars sprang a group of boys representing two rival East Harlem street gangs, the Young Conceiteds and the Untouchables. They swaggered to the front door, where waited Vaus, 41, and his first lieutenant, a Puerto Rican named Piri Thomas. 32. who once served six years for shooting...
...Many of the features in your Art section have been far out in left field, but this one about Jean Dubuffet is the limit. He is simply a gangster who expresses his antisocial character and makeup in the medium of painting. Maybe I am old-fashioned in believing that art should have an esthetic appeal...