Word: patronizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disgruntled call girl, investigators discovered a not-so-little black book with the names of more than 3,000 clients, a list so rich with executives, athletes, Arab sheiks, foreign officials, movie stars and prominent society figures that one awed officer called it a Who's Who. Each patron's pet vices were neatly inked next to his name. One notation cautioned that the customer often reeked of garlic. Another, more refined regular was so valued he was rewarded with champagne and a free one-hour session on Valentine's Day. Barrows' notation alongside his name...
...until late morning that anyone except those actually in volved in the operation began to realize the import of what had happened. Before dawn on Sept. 29, the day of the feast of St. Michael, patron of the police, Italian authorities had conducted one of the biggest crack downs on the Mafia since Dictator Benito Mussolini's relentless suppression of that fabled criminal organization in the 1920s. Armed with copies of the warrant for the arrest of 366 Mafia members, 140 of whom were already in jail, police rounded up 53. By the time the sun rose, the jails...
...bosses had good cause for fear as Bonventre, then 28, began to expand his power, cutting down anyone who stood in his way. "He killed this man. He killed that man," said the consigliere. "Perhaps he killed 20 men." Bonventre pressed the man who had once been his patron to yield to him his ownership of a restaurant that he coveted. He forced Mafia Don Frank Lupo, 56, out of his established territory. The don had to set himself up a new one in Miami. Bonventre bought himself a sleek, red Ferrari and took to wearing evening clothes...
...best-known fans, New York Governor Mario Cuomo, signed a bill granting $100,000 a year to support a series of writing workshops and lectures that Kennedy started at SUNY with a $15,000 grant. "You become successful, and the first thing you turn into is a patron of the arts," he was told by Saul Bellow, who once instructed the younger writer in a fiction class, and encouraged him to persevere at the craft...
...SALIERI finishes his story, his voice carries the hushed excitement of the insane. In cracked tones, he dubs himself the "patron saint" of mediocrity--mediocre, of course, in all but the complexity of his adoration and hatred for Amadeus...