Word: luciano
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Costello crony and one time high executioner for Murder, Inc. Anastasia was further enraged when another old mobster buddy, Frank Scalise, was hit on Genovese's order a month later for selling memberships in Cosa Nostra for $50,000 apiece. To Anastasia's mind, that broke Lucky Luciano's old law that the Cosa Nostra higher-ups should never be physically punished but only fined by the grand council. Word went out that Anastasia would retaliate against Genovese...
...bush, signed up four others before trekking into the bush after the first man. He bought. Another salesman lectured the Addis Ababa Rotary Club on mutuals, at meal's end had even the waiters trying to buy in. A salesman in Italy was less successful; Gangster Lucky Luciano died three days before their scheduled appointment...
...fascination for blending love and death in scenes of grotesque horror. In this tale by Spanish Novelist de Lera. the characters are cliches, and their talk is monotonous. But the novel comes powerfully alive when it reaches the love-death climax of a wedding night. The groom-to-be. Luciano, settles in a small, primitive town, picks a local beauty to marry. He has no trouble bribing her parents to let her go, but the rest of the townspeople fiercely resent an outsider taking one of their girls. They regard him with a "hatred steaming with hot blood and entrails...
...theory behind chance compositions is that they make members of the audience participants in the music. Modern audiences, points out Italian Composer Luciano Berio. too often regard music "as escape from reality." Because aleatory music is designed to surprise everybody-including the performers and the composer himself-it "gives doubt to the public," making the audience "part of the composition." Cage carried this concept to its illogical conclusion in his 4 Minutes and 33 Seconds, in which a pianist sat with a stop watch for four minutes and 33 seconds without playing a note, while the audience provided the "music...
Flanked as usual by small-bore mobsters and tailed by the customary bevy of cops (including half a dozen U.S. narcotics agents who unsentimentally filmed the mourners), Charles ("Lucky") Luciano made his last appearance in his Naples parish church. The late vice lord was encased in a mahogany casket. Following a eulogyless Requiem Mass and a brief bout of fisticuffs between a Luciano pal and a photographer who tried to snap "Charlie Lucky's" last girl friend, a gaudy and gargantuan funeral carriage drawn by eight beplumed horses carried the corpse to temporary rest at the English Cemetery...