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Word: mafioso (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Marie meets up with Spider, a Sunday-school-tongued, sweet-guy Mafioso whose aim in life is to do good by negative actions. Spider halts the installation of Muzak broadcasting in the subways by threatening to unload garbage on the Muzak man's beach. Marie does her bit by joining a major political party and then subverting the party hacks by persuading slum dwellers to organize a rent strike. There are other liberal, square attacks on the illiberal squares, among them the rout of a women's march protesting the establishment of a neighborhood clinic for drug addicts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grey Humor | 7/26/1968 | See Source »

...about for a paisan whose image and reputation were untouchable, the year-old American-Italian Anti-Defamation League reached into the pack and pulled out Frank Sinatra, 51, to be its national chairman in a campaign to convince the nation that not everyone of Italian descent is a capo mafioso. "It is an honor," said Frank in Miami Beach, where he is shooting a gangster flick called Tony Rome. "To me, any type of discrimination is anti-American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 12, 1967 | 5/12/1967 | See Source »

...MAFIOSO. Director Alberto Lattuada fills in the background with some gloriously garlicky slices of provincial Sicilian life, while Comedian Alberto Sordi struggles soberly with the insidious Mafia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Aug. 21, 1964 | 8/21/1964 | See Source »

...MAFIOSO. Director Alberto Lattuada fills in the background with some gloriously garlicky slices of provincial Sicilian life while Comedian Alberto Sordi struggles soberly with the insidious Mafia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Aug. 14, 1964 | 8/14/1964 | See Source »

...MAFIOSO. Back to Sicily, where Director Alberto Lattuada fills the background with some gloriously garlicky slices of provincial life while Comedian Alberto Sordi struggles soberly with the insidious Mafia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Records, Cinema, Books: : Aug. 7, 1964 | 8/7/1964 | See Source »

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