Word: mafia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bars and strip joints. Now it is a growing presence in porn films as well. Ironically, the Supreme Court's community-standards ruling in 1973 gave the mob its first foothold. Fearful of prosecution for interstate activities, many independent producers turned the risky business of distribution over to the Mafia. The mob also began pirating prints, then going to film producers and offering to take over future distribution and call off further piracy. The Mafia is in the business for the same reason as the new pornographers: voyeur sex is enormously profitable. Hardcore 8-mm. home-movie reels, which cost...
...ease with which both defense and prosecution attorneys in the Patty Hearst trial can hire psychiatrists to testify according to a script recalls the story of the Mafia interviewing applicants for accountant...
Both the right and the left seem to be embracing random terror and Mafia-style vendetta. Recently, the mother, father and sister of a youth named Federico Guillermo Baez were abducted from their home in the seaside resort of Mar del Plata, then later found dead. Their hands were cut off to delay identification. The next day the police announced that young Baez was the leader of a guerrilla squad that had killed an army colonel. The clear implication: right-wing forces had decided to avenge the officer's death by wiping out Baez's family...
...gray, though useful, landscape of listings that includes in a typical issue an index guide to 1,000-plus local events, critiques of nearly 80 films, as well as WFMT radio and public TV listings. Chicago runs occasional pieces of fiction and articles that cover everything from the Mafia to houseplants in a style that one reader describes as "funky, chic lakeside journalism...
...licenses or other identification. ("We told them we had to be sure who we were dealing with," said one officer.) The imaginative ploy, which was similar to one in New York City a year ago, paid an added dividend: many of the customers tried to impress the supposedly Mafia-connected fences with tales of crimes they had got away with. Their boasts-plus the loot-have led to 10,000 investigations including murder, bank robbery, hijacking and mail theft...