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...happy-go-lucky construction man accidentally ends up going into business with the mob to finance his big mouth. The resulting scenarios are actually quite funny. Or at least cute...

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: Betsy's Family Provides Simple Fun | 7/20/1990 | See Source »

...uncovered in hearings last year by the House Commerce, Consumer and Monetary Affairs Subcommittee. If found guilty of the OSC charges, both men could be banned for life from Government service. The alleged offenses began in 1984, when the whistle blowers turned in Santella for trading favors with a Mob-linked businessman. Thereafter, senior IRS officials began a harassment campaign that is still going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Whistle While You Work | 7/16/1990 | See Source »

Even Dustin Hoffman, as Mumbles, the know-it-all mob connection man whose words run together indisting uishably, does nothing exciting--he just gives us a reprise of his Rainman act, only with a different good-looking leading man. And a little more makeup...

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: Cool Colors Do Not A Great Movie Make | 6/29/1990 | See Source »

...They were going to interrogate him...the people from the Palestinian club wanted an observer there. I was right outside and there was this mob around the little door, and one security guard trying to keep the mob out. And I was too dark to take pictures but I just kept clicking to keep the pressure on and eventually they let in an observer...the danger of having it all recorded on film had scared them. And that impressed me with the power of photography. As I said earlier, I don't hold out any great hopes that...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Bringing Home the World: Exploring the Margins | 6/7/1990 | See Source »

...eight straight years, New York City had been pounded with one act of racial violence after another. 1982: Willie Turks, a black transit worker, is beaten to death by a mob of whites shouting racial slurs. 1984: Bernhard Goetz wounds four young blacks he said were menacing him on the subway. 1986: a white mob in the Howard Beach section of Queens attacks several blacks, one of whom fled in panic onto a highway and was killed by a passing car. 1989: a 28- year-old white executive is beaten and raped in Central Park by a pack of black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broken Mosaic | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

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