Word: greed
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...while the story line centers around Mafia life, the issues that the show deals with could just as easily be played out by characters who work at IBM, AT&T or K Mart. Jealousy, sibling rivalry, greed and infidelity are familiar to everyone. This is the key to The Sopranos' success: viewers relate to characters like Carmela, Paulie Walnuts and Uncle Junior because they have their own disobedient, ungrateful children, nagging spouses or demanding mothers...
...evidence of naked greed on Wall Street is, and long has been, as plain as the words spilling from bankers' mouths. Bear Stearns boss Ace Greenberg once said he didn't give a hoot about job applicants' education so long as they had "a deep desire to become rich." Donald Trump opined that "you can't be too greedy." Who can forget the greed-is-good speech from the felon Ivan Boesky, memorialized in the 1987 movie Wall Street...
...decade and a half that Terry Southern enjoyed fame as one of America's pre-eminent satirists, he tackled every "grand theme" he could get his hands on: greed ("The Magic Christian"), politics and war ("Dr. Strangelove"), drugs and youth rebellion ("Easy Rider"), death (the script for "The Loved One"), alienation and the media (the script for "End of the Road"), and, with particular relish, sex (the novels "Candy" and "Blue Movie...
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...case of "greed" and "power," says assistant U.S. Attorney Art Leach. Defense attorney Steve Sadow agrees. But it's the greed and power of the government which "wants to take $50 million away" from his successful client, whom he describes as an "aggressive," "hard-working businessman." Prosecutors, Sadow says, "recruited every scoundrel, every scumbag, every criminal that they could possibly get and have offered them their freedom and money for their testimony...