Word: irishness
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...lavish tribute seems wholly inappropriate for a ruthless killer who made his living through hijacking, racketeering, extortion and drugs. Yet the virtual lionization of underworld figures is nothing new. During the 1920s, America’s mass media helped transform certain groups of brutal outlaws—namely, ethnic Irish and Italian hoods that operated within highly structured criminal syndicates—into pop culture icons. For many impoverished European immigrants, the rags-to-riches, Horatio Alger-like tales of powerful mobsters such as Big Jim Colosimo and the infamous Al Capone seemed to epitomize the American Dream. As historian...
...substantial immigrant population of the area—particularly Irish, German and Jewish—attracted the Communist Party to the South End in the late nineteenth century. Trade unions staged huge May Day rallies for the Ten Hour Work Day, but the strongest community spirit was the support of South Ender John L. Sullivan, a boxer. The local favorite had pulverized his opponent in the last bare-knuckle heavyweight championship fought in the United States—though the fight lasted 75 rounds...
...bouquet: she carried McCartney roses, a variety named after her husband in 1993. She walked down the aisle to the tune of Heather, which McCartney wrote for her on his latest album. And she was surrounded by McCartney's famous friends, including Ringo Starr and Eric Clapton, in an Irish castle the couple rented for an estimated $3 million. One convenience that Mills chose not to take advantage of was having McCartney's daughter Stella, a well-regarded designer with her own label, make the wedding dress; instead, Mills sketched the gown herself, fueling rumors that she and Stella...
...days after the Oval Office meeting, discord struck again. This time, Secretary of State Colin Powell asked Treasury secretary Paul O'Neill about his tour of Africa, which made front-page news largely because of O'Neill's travel companion, Irish rock star Bono. Again, Natsios grew upset, asserting his agency's prerogative to manage U.S. foreign economic assistance. At another point, Natsios told a group gathered for one of Powell's morning staff meetings that Bush wanted AID to handle foreign...
...gestures of the standard tenor. But that was his genius: even before Bing Crosby, Astaire democratized singing. "Almost every great male icon of the art - Crosby, Sinatra, Torm?, Bennett - takes from Astaire," writes Steve Schwartz on Classical Net. "The male pop singer B.F. (before Fred) sounded something like an Irish tenor. ... The limitations of Astaire's voice forced him to find another way - deceptively casual, never oversold, and at home with the American vernacular. Astaire moved the 'scene' of the singer from the center of the great hall to just across the table, in effect replacing the Minstrel Boy with...