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...stylized 1950s look is unconvincing, and the dialogue sounds like parody: "I can look at myself mornings, Charlie. Sounds to me like you're havin' problems in that department." For hard-boiled crime fighting, CBS's Wiseguy, with Ken Wahl as an undercover cop trying to infiltrate the Mob, is smarter and meaner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Yup, Yup and Away! | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

Despite the animosity that filled the Yard Sunday night, freshmen said that the mob scene only added to class spirit. Students said that dorm rivalries bond entryways, and that the battle of obscenities was just a "good study break...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frosh War Explodes in Yard | 9/29/1987 | See Source »

...muskrat, dancing at Regine's, whither he had ventured from the George V, where he had a suite that he used as an office to organize a dinner at Versailles for 300 Cajuns, to make reservations at the Lido and the Crazy Horse, and to book the whole mob on planes and buses for a gambling sortie to Monte Carlo (he could have been doing all this at once; it is hard to say with Sam). When we caught up with him again this summer, he was on a train bound for glory, he hoped, rushing a gubernatorial candidate through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Louisiana: We Got the Hook in 'Em Now, Bubba | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

Because Japan's network of dealers is not nearly so large or aggressive as the mob of smart hucksters selling paintings in New York City and London, only a handful of painters manage to make a living from their art. Many turn to editorial and advertising work. They may be painters manque, but talented art directors and designers are more indulged and permitted more expressive leeway in Japan than in most other countries. Much of their work, even for big corporations, is highly unorthodox. At train stations in Tokyo last year, commuters could not avoid a meditation on androgyny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Japan Is On The Go | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

After winning more than 30 convictions of top mobsters in the past year, federal prosecutors unveiled a new tactic last week: suing the Mafia for damages. In a unique use of federal racketeering laws, U.S. Attorney Andrew J. Maloney asked a federal judge to seize Mob-tied businesses in an attempt to break up the Bonanno crime organization, one of New York's five Mafia families. Among the alleged fronts: three hotels and a taxi company, which officials say were bought with money from the family's gambling, loan-sharking and drug networks. It was the first time a Mafia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Suing the Mafia | 9/7/1987 | See Source »

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