Word: hoodlum
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...over to another gang. This gang could use the child as an instrument for extorting further ransom. Or it might make a favorable impression on the nation's prosecutors by returning the child gratis. It might use the child as a hostage, returnable for the freedom of some potent hoodlum (the Senator Bingham theory...
...Bonanno clan, one of the Five Families of crime incorporated by Lucky Luciano in 1931. It was Massino who revived the Bonannos after the humiliation of the Donnie Brasco caper, in which FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone infiltrated the gang and spent five years posing as a hoodlum named Brasco and, with his court testimony, helped send 200 Mob men to prison. Already reeling from the Pizza Connection prosecutions (after a bust that exposed a giant heroin distribution racket run from pizza parlors), the Bonannos were thrown off the Five Families commission and left for dead. With brains and muscle...
...board. Anti-gun lobbyists hope this embarrassment will help them defeat a bill in Congress that would shield gunmakers from crime-victim lawsuits. Says Mike Barnes, head of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence: "Only in the N.R.A.'s America can a company chaired by a onetime violent hoodlum be on the verge of being given a license to behave negligently." --By Julie Rawe
...young woman who only has music in her heart. The affair does not end happily. Indeed, few of Rhodes' tales have conventionally happy endings. For example, in one of Timoleon Vieta's romantic detours, we read of the deaf and diligent daughter Aurora, who falls hard for a local hoodlum, to the horror of her whole family. All, that is, except for the canny grandmother, who tells Aurora she is doomed to act out one of the oldest stories in the book; the one where the bad boy makes good, the couple settles into domestic bliss and she forgets...
...STEIGER, 77, who won an Academy Award in 1967 for his portrayal of a bigoted Southern sheriff in the movie In the Heat of the Night; in Los Angeles. Over a 57-year career in film and TV, Steiger played a variety of memorable characters, including Marlon Brando's hoodlum brother in On the Waterfront and historical figures such as Napoleon, Rasputin and Mussolini. DIED. JOHN FRANKENHEIMER, 72, director of 1960s film classics like Birdman of Alcatraz and The Manchurian Candidate; in Los Angeles. Frankenheimer's troubles with alcohol caused his career to suffer in the 1970s...