Word: molds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most movies about low-life Americana condescend to their subject with lots of sweat, foul patter, fat ladies and idiot giggling. This lurid and intermittently seductive melodrama (based on a true story) just observes Brad Sr. and his mob dispassionately, like slime mold under a microscope. They execute their robberies, and their victims, with soulless professionalism; their gangster grimaces register starkness without sexiness. Brad Jr. and his pals are hardly more exemplary. Talking tough, swigging beer, waiting for something bad to happen, they could be the Whitewood Gang in embryo...
...countries, with the exception of Poland, could come soon and suddenly. In the meantime, the Soviet chief is pressuring local parties to rejuvenate the middle ranks and trying to spot future leaders. Most of the aging party chiefs will almost certainly be replaced by technocrats in the Gorbachev mold. In Bulgaria, for example, Mining Engineer Chudomir Alexandrov, 49, has just been promoted to the powerful post of central committee secretary, and looms as a potential successor to Zhivkov. In Czechoslovakia a quiet changing of the guard is under way. Says a highly placed official in his 40s: "The older ones...
...states have their own little RICOs. Meanwhile, prosecutors have begun to take advantage of the elasticity of the federal statute to pursue politicians and other government figures who do not fit the typical gangster mold. Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards, whose first trial ended in a hung jury, is back in federal court again facing RICO charges involving an influence-peddling scheme. Two weeks ago, federal prosecutors obtained...
Responding to a follow-up question by Safranabout what member of the fictitious spy genrewould best fit the CIA mold, Schlesinger repiled,"The profile we are looking for is not JamesBond...
...creature this blob, an amoeboid that has taken on a new shape that belies its original form. Defense contractors, businessmen, and the wealthy now mold its front, while minority groups, unions, the poor and others have been squished into the background. Money, bureaucracy, and connections make up its trident...