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Looking sexy is the big pull. Says Marilyn Black, a public relations expert in Los Angeles: "Guys call me Carmen Miranda and snap their fingers over their heads when I walk down the street. Bare shoulders must be sexy." Tina Comparato, a Washington saleswoman, confirms that "you get more looks in a strapless dress than in a very short...
...Chief Justice of the U.S. seemed to be breaking with some established judicial customs last week. In response to reporters' questions in St. Paul, Warren Burger said he currently saw "no change" in search-and-seizure regulations or the so-called Miranda confession protections for those arrested; such observations were unusual because decisions in both areas are now pending before the Supreme Court. Responding to complaints that the court has been cutting down on the kinds of suits that can be filed, the Chief Justice cited recently expanded prisoners' rights and the general increase in cases reaching...
LIKE HIS FATHER, Michael is a composite of several celebrated underworld figures--Frank Costello, Vito Genovese and Lucky Luciano. He lives in a world of fifties sleaze--of hideous Scandinavian modern furniture, immense Carmen Miranda style nightclubs, of two-tone deSotos and banana daiquiris. The older generation, at least, lived like old-fashioned Italian dons--eating good food, living in fine old houses, aspiring to a taste for literature and history. The younger generation is caught halfway between Scarsdale and Umberto's Clam House. Surprisingly, the movie Godfather II is closest to is The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz: two hard...
...point, the most vicious of my tormentors got down on his knees in front of me, lifted up my hood so I could see his face and said that he would kill me if I did not cooperate. I believed him. Later, he told me his name: Luis Miranda Filho, a swarthy fat man with a huge black mustache. He is a notorious sadist, known in Recife to be responsible for countless tortures. He and a Colonel Meziat, identified as chief of intelligence of the Fourth Army and the man responsible for my imprisonment and torture, were the only ones...
Perhaps this country's bleeding-heart liberals should review Miranda and his record after 1966. I personally credit Earl Warren and his court not only for the breakdown of morals but also for the rise in crime in this country...