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...kind of troublesome sequel, a second swat at an obsession that has buzzed around the author's head for a decade or more. Killing Mister Watson, published in 1990, was Matthiessen's impressive, exasperating novel about the shooting, in 1910, of a man named E. J. Watson, by a mob of angry townsmen in southwest Florida. Was Watson a hardworking planter and family man who paid his bills and helped his neighbors, or a bar brawler and casual gunman who killed his hired hands rather than pay them at the end of the cane-cutting season? Or was he both...
...stand-up guy. If gangsters had been trying to find the stolen paintings, "they could have chopped his fingers off one at a time," and Donati wouldn't have given up the goods. Connor thinks it's more likely he was killed in a battle between Boston's warring mob factions than because some crime boss wanted a Rembrandt on his wall...
Responding to Dershowitz's slam, Mashberg says, "I'm a journalist. I'm not an agent of the government. The Federal Government makes deals with criminals all the time. They turn drug dealer A loose to get drug dealer B; they free mob killer A to get mob killer B. And Alan Dershowitz represents wife abusers and murderers. I don't see how he isn't guilty of the same thing he accuses me of. This case basically was nowhere after 7 1/2 years, and in the last 7 1/2 weeks, look...
...type consists of men dressed all in black--a group the New York Press, a downtown weekly, has called the "Comme des Knuckleheads crowd," after a downtown store called Comme des Garcons, which specializes in black clothing for wannabe hipsters. The Comme des Knuckleheads usually remain clustered in a mob at the bar, since they are hoping to be joined by models late in the evening, and models don't actually...
...brought more and more visitors to the city and thus to the city's restaurants. According to my theory, it must have eventually dawned on a critical mass of diners (many of them already in a state of irritation from having had to shoulder their way past a mob of noisy Knuckleheads at the bar) that if the bozos in red suspenders across the room were in charge on Wall Street, the system had to be deeply flawed. Panic naturally followed...