Word: gangsterized
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...tauntingly calls up her lover while Newman broods (Newman does little but brood in the film, perhaps because of overexposure to Tennessee Williams). The lover is a psychiatrist, incidentally, and therein lies a small triumph; Hollywood, mindful of protests whenever it portrays a red Indian or an Italian gangster, has at last found a villain whom everyone can hate...
Died. Tommy Touhy, 67, Capone era Chicago gangster who once boasted that his more notorious brother, Roger, "got the blame for a lot of things I did"; of cancer; in Chicago...
...allows his wife to take a temporary job as a domestic servant, and one night he stays with her in her quarters. The police break in and carry him off to jail as a trespasser. Home a few days later, Zachariah finds his wife dead-murdered by a tsotsi (gangster, Zulu style), who strangled her when she refused to lift her skirts...
...appealing work demonstrated that La Scala is trying hard to catch up. The ballet opened against a backdrop of black-and-white hotel exteriors reminiscent of Ludwig Bemelmans drawings; the story then moved to nightclub, courtroom and prison as it told of a girl who is wooed by a gangster, framed in a gangland shooting, sentenced to death, but liberated by a previous lover. The short piece was lavishly costumed-busboys in scarlet monkey suits, red-robed judges, policemen dressed in dominoes-and it amply displayed Ballerina Fracci's hard-edged, superbly controlled style...
...Plain and the old wives' appeal of Dr. D. C. Jarvis' Folk Medicine, there can be set Garrett Mattingly's The Armada, a rare, readable example of historical scholarship. To offset The Stolen Years, which cashes in on headlines about the recent murder of Prohibition Gangster Roger Touhy, and Vance Packard's The Status Seekers, a flight of amateur and secondhand sociology, there is a vivid re-creation of D-day in Cornelius Ryan's The Longest...