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...associate justice of the Texas Supreme Court. Added to Yarbrough's other troubles, which range from 17 civil suits to a forgery indictment to an 84-count disbarment petition, the recording may well herald an early end to one of the strangest Texan judicial careers since the heyday of Hanging Judge Roy Bean...
...band era. His is not the actual historical period, of course; on V-J day, 1945, when the film begins, Scorsese was two, and Scriptwriter Earl Mac Rauch, who devised the original story, was not yet born. What Scorsese is evoking is an epoch of moviemaking: the heyday of lavish studio musicals...
Despite the bloodletting in Chicago, the Outfit has been rapidly expanding its Western operations. Although freelance Mafiosi and other big-time criminals have operated in California since the heyday of Bugsy Siegel in the 1940s, the only important criminal clan was Jack Dragna's family in Los Angeles. When Dragna's nephew Louis turned down a chance to become boss in 1974 ?he was promptly dubbed "the Reluctant Prince"?the Outfit and New York's Gambino clan made an extraordinary agreement to exploit the West together. Frank Bompensiero, consigliere (chief adviser) of the fading Dragna family, outlined...
...heyday in the 1960s, the separatist sect known as the "Black Muslims" appeared to many as a sinister force for racial hostility. Their leader, Elijah Muhammad, preached a weird doctrine that the race of "white devils" had been created from blacks, and that Allah had assumed bodily form in the person of W.D. Fard, a mysterious black itinerant who preached in Detroit until he vanished in 1934. The great annual event was "Savior's Day," the cult's Christmas, which celebrated the advent of Fard...
...this season. "It just happened that the coach wanted to put us together and it just happened that we're all from Edmontion." Dea said. Despite its haphazard origins, the Edmonton Express is a tag that evokes the scoring chemistry and charisma of the immortal lines of hockey's heyday--Montreal's Punch Line, Toronto's Kid Line, Detroit's Production Line, Boston's Kraut Line, and New York's Gag Line...