Word: mafiosi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heritage, it has become increasingly downtrodden during the past decades. Growing up there in the 1950s and '60s, Versace witnessed the miserable postwar poverty that filled the streets, but could find elegance in the turquoise Strait of Messina that lay just beyond them. His was a city where Calabrian Mafiosi thrived in all their cheap glamour and children once passed the hours in ancient ruins. Versace's family home neighbored the remains of a Greek temple...
Fortunately, they freely confess to fallibility. Indeed, such is their concern over being misperceived as color mafiosi that at conference end, a dozen CMG officers gathered in the press suite to downplay their own significance to the assembled media. That the assembled media consisted of a local reporter, a trade journalist and myself proved no deterrent to their earnest onslaught. CMG only forecasts, insisted our briefers; it doesn't dictate; the consumer is the ultimate arbiter...
...hold on. Sandler, one of the more annoying Saturday Night Live cast members of recent years, reveals some unforeseen talent on his new album, What the Hell Happened to Me? He still lapses too often into juvenile self-indulgence, but the best of his dry, absurdist bits--several aging mafiosi dote on one of their grandchildren; a band of neighborhood pals teases a goat--have more body and feeling for character than anything SNL offers these days. Sandler, it seems, is one of those comics who just took a little while to find his place: on records...
...joyous last night," says TIME's Greg Burke. "A victory celebration broke out when he was brought in, especially since he had killed three of their own." Brusca is also charged with the murder of Giuseppe Di Matteo, the 11 year-old son of Santino Di Matteo, a former Mafiosi who became a government witness. Brusca allegedly first kidnapped the boy to end his father's collaboration, but when that didn't work, strangled him and threw his body in a vat of acid. "He is considered to be the most wanted of the Mafia fugitives," says Burke...
...days when New York pols with great names--Meade Esposito, Stanley Steingut--swaggered toward a dread destiny. The bad guys in City Hall are in that mold: princes of darkness, Borgias of Brooklyn. The movie's obvious forebear is The Godfather, which apotheosized the dirty dealings of statesmen and Mafiosi in the richly upholstered, 10-watt throne room of Hades...