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Count on both teams to show up in formal garb for the occassion, beginning...
...dirty work. Says one federal official: "He likes to peer into a victim's face, like some kind of dark angel, at the moment of death." Dellacroce is a master of disguises. Known throughout the Mob as "Mr. O'Neill," he often donned priest's garb on his troubleshooting assignments for Gambino, earning his other name, "Father O'Neill." Dellacroce's men -undisguised-were at the motel meeting. They said nothing. They didn't have...
...sentence of the book as effortlessly as in nature: Time--arrested, slowed, kneaded by memory and chance, centuries disturbed like dust, recalled like a dream; Power--huge, inevitable, mysterious even to its wielder; Death--arriving at an unex-pected moment, as a carrion bird or in a penitent's garb; and, finally, the rituals of everyday life, expressed in the prepositional phrases, uncapitalized, unpersonified, that begin the book with "over the weekend" and end it with the drawing of the "uncountable time of [the patriarch's] eternity...
...Paris originals are always expensive. The frocks are romantically opulent, pointing away from unisex or any parody of male dress. Maybe women feel sufficiently liberated by now to allow themselves frankly "feminine" dress. But are women ready for such high costume-and would they feel comfortable in such operatic garb? At any rate, Saint Laurent seems to have decreed a turn away from politics (women a few years ago were wearing army shirts and cartridge belts) toward a different, Ballets Russes fantasy. The question is whether women will follow...
...city is, of course, expensive. It also offers sometimes astonishing bargains if the shopper knows where to look. Between Fifth and Sixth avenues on 47th Street, for example, is the diamond district, one of the world's largest. Here diamond merchants, among them Hasidic Jews in black garb, pull around tens of thousands of dollars' worth of jewelry in black suitcases on wheels. Discounts are large and bargaining is advisable. Down on the Lower East Side, on Orchard, Grand, Canal and nearby streets, stores offer first-quality, name-brand merchandise (shoes, linens, handbags, clothing, for the most part...