Word: hoodlumism
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Ginny first replays her gropings with Joe Bob Sparks, the imbecile high-school star athlete whose lettered jacket "looked like the rear window of a Winnebago with stickers from every state." From there she moves on to kinky sex with Clem Cloyd, the town hoodlum, and then to a proper Boston women's college, "alma mater of vast battalions of female overachievers." When her prim devotion to the rationalism of Descartes collapses under the onslaught of Nietzsche, she drops out of school and into a lesbian affair with a leathery radical. A communal farm in Vermont claims Ginny next...
...union has been so often investigated and exposed as the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America. As far back as the 1950s, it was dissected by the Senate McClellan committee-which later branded it a "hoodlum empire"-and thrown out of the AFL-CIO as a pariah unfit to live in the house of labor. Since then, it has been the target of endless grand-jury investigations and many exposes of Teamster-Mafia deals, and some of its officers have been jailed; James R. Hoffa ran the union from a cell in Lewisburg federal penitentiary between...
...series of memorable court actions, Hoffa fought duels with the forces of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, whose will matched his own and who finally succeeded in jailing him. "A ruthless little monster," Hoffa called his pursuer, while Kennedy denounced the Teamsters as "hoodlum-controlled...
...planned for everything, down to the brass band waiting to toot out a welcome at the Las Vegas station. Or had he? Passengers taking in the scenery suddenly noticed a 1923 Chrysler touring car and a 1925 brewery truck following the train on an adjacent road. Rival Hoodlum Barney Weiss apparently had dispatched his own welcoming party to greet Big Jim. From a machine gun mounted on the back of the truck, a Weiss torpedo named Charley Ice fired several bursts at the passing coaches. Two other goons opened up with shotguns. Valenti and his bodyguard, Tony Robozo, fired back...
...turn a camera or raise a curtain on him and the reticent, barely descript DeNiro undergoes a metamorphosis. In Bang the Drum Slowly, he remade himself into a slovenly, Southern-bumpkin, baseball player; in Mean Streets, into a jittery, petty street hoodlum. Now, with his portrayal of the young Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather, Part II, DeNiro, 31, has come fully and formidably into his own as a character actor of range and depth...