Word: mobster
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York Times reported recently that some of the most active criminal networks in New York involve immigrants from South America, Central America, and the Soviet Union. Italians did not merit mention on the list. Then what but prejudice could have prompted Mr. Troyer to use an Italian word for "mobster" where no ethnic designation was appropriate...
...movie's title suggests that its makers aspired to more than a good cop movie. The title comes from an exchange between Douglas and Tomisaburo Wakayama, who plays the mobster Sugai. When Douglas criticizes the mafioso's livelihood, Wakayama launches into a monologue on the horror of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings...
...symbol of American enterprise at its worst, Al Capone has a place in history. But some Chicagoans would rather forget the legendary mobster. When Mark Levell, 29, a computer technician and amateur historian, proposed to the U.S. Interior Department that it designate as a historic site the red brick house on Chicago's South Side where Scarface lived during his 1920s crime wave, he sparked a heated reaction...
...known in the newspapers, but to see someone the newspapers have said is on the lam definitely has a touch of magic to it." The young apprentice also learns that "I had caught on with the great Dutch Schultz in his decline of empire, he was losing control." The mobster's legal problems are mounting, his bribe money is no longer good in New York City, and gentlemen competitors of Italian ancestry -- Schultz calls them "dago scungili" -- are moving in on his operations. Dreadful events threaten; all of them occur, and then some...
...performance is all in her appearance--with her faint moustache, one long eyebrow, and house-sized black lace dress--but even better is her body language. Shaking her groove thing, or two, comes natural to Mama, as she forcefully swats a bat and lurches her hips in the "Mobster Mash" number...