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...Maxi's 99-cent store on 589 Mass Ave. hopes to fill the niche left by Woolworth...
...wall of secrecy and the infamous culture of omerte (silence) that surrounded the Mafia. Childhood friends from Palermo, aloof, workaholic Giovanni Falcone and the gregarious Paolo Borsellino were, in the author's phrase, Sicilian patriots. Together they painstakingly amassed the evidence that led to the first so-called maxi-trial, of 475 Mafia conspirators, which began in Palermo on Feb. 16, 1986, and ended 22 months later with the conviction of 344 defendants. Both prosecutors eventually paid for their integrity and grit. In May 1992 Falcone and his wife, while on their way to visit his mother, were ambushed...
...focused on the misfortunes of five families. Excellent Cadavers has a broader, bloodier scope, and at times readers may find themselves lost in a thicket of unfamiliar names. Stille clearly struggled to humanize his two heroes, whom he never met, and the book's last section, which describes the maxi-trial's political aftermath, seems rushed and scrappy. Excellent Cadavers, nonetheless, is a strong tale of a drama in progress: the Mafia may have been badly bruised, but it has not yet died...
Television: Scarlett is a soporific maxi-series...
...Maxi's can boast that every item in the store costs 99 cents--$1.04 with tax. At $1.04, the detergent labelled $2.79 seemed like a bargain, while the little green lollipop did not. There are bins of 99-cent socks which smell as if they've already been worn, and crates of women's underwear, through which a middle-aged man was all too eagerly rifling as he eyed my cigar...