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Word: mafia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hands were locked together behind his white hair to form a headrest; at the other end of his small body, his stocking feet were crossed. Terkel must have sensed the grandeur of the pose. "Do I look like one of those hoods?," he asked, thinking perhaps of some mafia chieftan...

Author: By Scott A. Kaufer, | Title: Studs Terkel | 3/27/1974 | See Source »

...hardly go wrong no matter what you see this week, and the real attraction of the week is Cagney on T.V., so I'll leave space for Farmer Briney. A few oddities worth checking: Bogart (with a taste for cheesecake, the source of which Peter Lorre viciously murders) and Mafia friends save N.Y.C. from the Nazis when the police aren't watching in All Through the Night; the Russian film of Dostoevsky at Quincy; John Wayne in John Ford's Stagecoach, one of the first major Westerns. A jumble of others, two with Peter Sellers. Two Marx brothers. Cambridge...

Author: By Richard Shepro, | Title: THE SCREEN | 3/14/1974 | See Source »

Joey Gallo's career must have been a disappointment to him. Despite the most strenuous criminal efforts, he never did find a place above the salt at the Mafia's endless family banquet. His alternate gambit, as a kind of self-taught existential hero on Manhattan's celebrity circuit, did not amount to much either. And of course he ended up dead of assorted, uncredited gunshot wounds in a clam bar in Little Italy a couple of years back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Littlest Caesar | 3/11/1974 | See Source »

...there is a nice element of nostalgia for the bad old guys in Crazy Joe. In addition, he was nothing if not a veteran Mafia soldier, so there is ample opportunity to poke around glumly tasteless mansions inhabited by sundry god-fatherly types. And there they are, nibbling- their ethnic viands as they order up colorful executions of errant associates. Such sequences should satisfy Cosa Nostra buffs, who seem to form a significant portion of the movie audience today. Finally, as every tabloid reader must remember, Crazy Joe contracted toward the end a loose alliance with black mobsters - also outsiders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Littlest Caesar | 3/11/1974 | See Source »

...young woman were clearly the exception. Yet Cinque and his ilk were establishing themselves in the national consciousness as a new and distinct breed-a potentially dangerous achievement. "Cinque is getting away with his own delusions," says Ralph F. Salerno, top New York City investigator and expert on the Mafia. "If everyone said, 'You're a hood,' then he would appear for what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRORISM: The Politics of Terror | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

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