Word: mobster
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...result is a film going in too many directions, none of them resolved. For Jeson's sake, David has tagged along skeptically, ever bashfully peering through smudged glasses and trailing a dowdy muffer, But jason turns out to be a second rate front men for a black mobster and is out. Smarted in a shady real estate deal. Sally realizes that her conquette heyday has long since passed and panic brings her to borderline insanity. The sexually insecure David wallows in nervous in-irosprection, and lets the dream linger too long. For Sally hysterically plows four bullets into jason...
Though some experts on the Mafia question whether a mobster of Vario's relatively low rank could run as important and widespread an operation as Gold claims, there is hope that the district attorney will be able to make at least some of his charges stick. Predicting "additional sensational developments" in the months to come, Gold says: "I think we could see a couple hundred of these fellows going to jail. That would be unparalleled...
...subsidize this vacant dream, Jason has been acting as front man for a black mobster called Lewis (Benjamin "Scatman" Crothers) and doing some fast real estate shuffling with a couple of cavernous old hotels (It is very desirable to erect hotels on account of the very large rental...). Irretrievably second rate, hopelessly outsmarted by the black gangsters, Jason sees his dreams of glory collapse like one of the rotten piers along the ocean's edge (A player is bankrupt when he owes more than...
...peripheral to the case under investigation. Further, the Court says that by requiring newsmen to divulge sources, given this legal recourse, it is imposing no prior restraint not any other shackle forbidden by the Constitution. Yet the practical effect of the Court's decision is that no mobster, no political dissident, no corrupt Congressman, nor any other person involved in illegal activities will (provided he has any sense) discuss those activities with the press. The knowledge that anything said to a reporter is subject to grand jury scrutiny effectively restricts the ability of the press to expose, investigate and analyze...
Indeed, his concerts were less appreciated by critics than by hoods. Mobster Frank Costello was one of his biggest fans. In New York's Lewisohn Stadium, Levant annually played Gershwin to a bench of discriminating cauliflower ears...