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...neatly organized system at the GOP convention in San Diego, though, which fed the throngs smoothly to the metal detectors, the Chicago security team has no idea how to organize the lines leading to the gates. On Monday night, as thousands of people pressed forward in an agitated mob, impatient delegates and Democratic staff began jumping the line and forcing their way into an already claustrophic mass. Senior White House aide George Stephanopoulos burst out laughing when, making his way through the chaos, he spotted a fuming magazine photographer being frisked by Secret Security at the front door. Said...
...played the role of pied piper to an unrestrained cheering mob whose behavior must have made the hapless nonwinners feel like the vanquished gladiators in ancient Rome--thumbs down, and bring in the lions! ROSE WONG MACMICHAEL Bradenton, Florida...
...silk-and-cashmere flamboyance may have embodied the underworld side of '80s excess, Castellano and Gravano were, in this film's view, the true moral lepers because they threw around terms like "joint venture" and "bottom line" and believed in the coldhearted notion that the whole point of the Mob--the purpose of looting pension funds, intimidating building contractors, throwing deadbeats into canals with concrete shoes--was to make its board of directors extremely wealthy...
Gotti--prone here to declarations like, "I'd rather die broke than bleed my family to death!"--may have had different ideas about the Mob's purpose in life, but the filmmakers are so entranced by the sheer myth of him that they haven't bothered to explore what those ideas might be. Nor do the filmmakers try to make sense of Gotti's many paradoxes. Here was a man obsessed with rules, yet when one of his associates breaks a pre-eminent one by dealing drugs, Gotti does not toss him out; instead he visits him in the hospital...
...Puzo-esque romantic, a faux plumbing-supply salesman who longs for the days when the Cosa Nostra had real structure, when family loyalty meant something, when the Mafia wasn't so enthusiastically in the business of mergers and acquisitions. "Gotti may have had different ideas about the Mob's purpose in life," says TIME's Ginia Bellafante, "but the filmmakers are so entranced by the sheer myth of him that they haven't bothered to explore what those ideas might be. Nor do the filmmakers try to make sense of Gotti1s many paradoxes. Here was a man obsessed with rules...