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...wrecking crane painted orange and hung a sign on the side of the building with OAKLAND painted in huge letters on it. A crowd of hundreds gathered to watch and cheer the destruction. The darker side: when a man walked into a bar and turned on the jukebox during a televised Bronco game, he got into a frenzied argument with irate fans, one of them followed him into a parking lot, shot and killed him, and wounded two companions...
...hole designed for people who want to get loaded as fast and as cheaply as possible. If you don't mind being proofed at the door, and fighting your way through a forest of sweaty, drunken bodies to a sticky table where you can drink, listen to blaring bad jukebox music and look at posters advertising specials on the walls, you'll like Father...
...block, on Mass Ave, you'll find the local Big Pink--the Hong Kong Restaurant, or simply "the Kong." Although the food found in the first floor violates Geneva convention provisions regarding biological warfare, the bar upstairs has wonderfully tacky decor, moderately-priced good drinks, and a jukebox featuring Frank Sinatra singing "My Way." Local high school toughs take over on weekends, but during the week, Dino DiLaurentiis is right--"People gonna love Kong...
...enough cash to live exceedingly well by most Americans' standards, if not like the jet-set multimillionaires that their net worth would enable them to be. Some pass money to very cooperative bankers, who lend it back. Others own legal businesses with large cash flows?bars, pizza parlors, restaurants, jukebox companies or vending-machine firms. No matter how poorly the business may do, its books show huge profits because the mobster is pumping in the rackets money, thereby converting it into cash that can be spent openly. Other Mafiosi have no-show jobs, with either their own firms or companies...
Even a Spartan might call Lily's lifestyle spartan, and the house, painted a cerulean blue, is small, almost a parody of a star's usual manse. "If I hit the skids tomorrow," she says, "I could still afford the house." She has a jukebox in the living room, an upright piano in the foyer and a small, cluttered study downstairs, with pictures of cherished stars of the past like Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable. The ceiling of her bedroom is painted sky blue, with puffy white summer clouds-her brother Richard's artwork. In the back...