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...considered a highflyer and was working for the Gambino ^ family underboss, Aniello Dellacroce, a Mafia traditionalist whom Gotti emulated. He endeared himself to the Gambino family when, in 1973, he took part in the killing of a 6-ft. 4-in. Irishman who had supposedly kidnaped and murdered a nephew of Carlo Gambino's. Gotti pleaded guilty to attempted manslaughter and served two years in Green Haven prison...
...time he was 16, he made it to Houston, where he "slept on anybody's couch until I wore out my welcome." He hooked up with his uncle Nick Fain, who had lived with the family for a while and taught his nephew the rudiments of six-string rock guitar. "He was only five years older than I was," Earle says. "He was my hero." A friendship with Townes Van Zandt started Earle down the folk-music trail, where he eventually landed jobs on the coffeehouse circuit. "There was lots of noise and smoke. I became the world's loudest...
...novel's hero, of a sort, turns out to be Benton Lynch, nephew of the bald Jeeter, son of the fat Jeeter, and a lad who "could not ever rise much above cipherdom." The author, of course, elaborates: "He was not blatantly stupid or outright idiotic. There was not anything blatant or outright about him, not anything at all. He mostly simply was not." What Benton does possess, it turns out, is a taste for armed robbery and a lecherous hankering after Jane Elizabeth Firesheets, who is willing to overlook his myriad inadequacies for the thrill of sharing a life...
...Christopher, who had already imprisoned his predecessor Leo V. Sergius then had both Popes strangled in jail. He also fathered an illegitimate son by a 15-year-old heiress named Marozia, who eventually got the debauched son chosen as Pope John XI soon after his 21st birthday. John's nephew, who was even more debauched, duly became John XII when barely...
Snuggled in there on the racks among HUMOROUS NEPHEW and FOREIGN BIRTHDAY are cards with messages such as "The warmth of your hug lingers . . ." and "In this world it's very scary to be open and vulnerable . . ." and "Finally, I have a friend I can trust . . . completely!" So far the genre has no name -- call it the emotionally expressive component of the nonoccasion card market. But under such brand names as Soft Sentiments and Personal Touch, cards retailing love, heartache and other real-life, prepackaged emotions are among the hottest products in the industry. "The style today is openness...