Word: racketeer
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...show up at Cardullo's Gourmet Shop at an off-hour, a sign in the door will advise you to try out the Wursthaus instead, which is a dumpling's-throw away. What this means is a racket on European foods for Frank Cardullo who just happens to own both places, but the Wursthaus...
...months two federal grand juries and a posse of Internal Revenue and other federal agents have been on the trail of a massive influence-peddling and extortion racket conducted in Gurney's behalf. Last week's indictment charges that Florida real estate developers and contractors who had business pending before the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development paid $233,160 into a secret slush fund from January 1971 through mid-1973. The money was used for Gurney's "personal, political and travel expenses" and for operating his offices in Washington and Florida...
HENNIE BERGER, the tough-talking daughter who complies with her mother's scheme to falsely entrap a husband and yet managers to endure, is sympathetically portrayed by Helena Ruoti, who delivers her smart remarks with all the emotion that simmers beneath them. As the wisecracking racketeer who understands that it's all a racket. "Marriage, politics, big business- everybody plays cops and robbers," and who says "Listen, lousy," when he means "I love you," Steven Gilborn's Moe Axelrod grows on you throughout the production. Donald Buka polishes off the role of the fat cat capitalist Uncle Morty as effortlessly...
...With Dirty Faces opens up at the Orson Welles Cinema I on Sunday as part of the Welles's continuing "Heroes and Rebels" series. On the Waterfront is a marvellous bit of social reconstruction and Brando is at his best as the young fighter working on New York's racket-corrupted docks. Angles is a cliched period piece, certainly not near Cagney's prime...
...classic of sports reporting, Levels of the Game, did not join team tennis, although offered a bundle of easy cash. He admitted the idea was interesting but said he didn't think that was what tennis was all about. If it works, he said he'd eat his tennis racket...