Word: heavyhandedness
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Both writers agree with the FBI that Hoffa's murder was engineered by Anthony ("Tony Pro") Provenzano, the heavyhanded boss of New Jersey's Teamsters, who was convicted in June of the 1961 murder of Anthony Castellito, a Teamster hoodlum who had challenged Tony Pro's cut...
Up to now, Iranian students seem to have had more impact abroad than at home. This year 100,000 Iranians are studying in other countries?more than 37,000 in the U.S. alone?because there is no room for them at their own universities. Angered and articulate, they have formed...
All possibly entertaining. But these writers have an irritating way of implying that their novels are more than mere divertissements, that in fact they are pointing to the way things were, or are, or will be, and they indulge in all sorts of name-dropping to enhance the illusion of...
Foster is the Dulles whom Mosley clearly likes the least. He quotes a wicked story about Foster's first appearance before the House Committee on Appropriations to give the members a sort of tour d'horizon. State Department assistants had to ask if the Secretary could change the...
It is unfortunate that Bertolucci chose to portray unresolveable tension; whether or not his message is valid, it does not lend itself easily to a heavyhanded treatment. The main conflict in 1900 is the love these two men bear for each other, across ideological and social grounds; and the main...