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...Mafia Consigliere Frank ("Bomp") Bompensiero, 71. Shortly before 8 p.m. on Feb. 10, Bomp walked from his San Diego home to a nearby public telephone booth, which he used as an office in order to avoid wiretaps. In his pocket was a notebook containing coded balance sheets of loan-shark usury payments and lists of coded phone numbers. The numbers turned out to be those of other public telephones scattered through California and Nevada. The phones constitute a West Coast Mafia hot-line system...
...month on an auto loan and $50 a month on department-store charge accounts. Conclusion: he would pay anything from 1% to 22% effective annual interest on his vacation loan if he turned to legitimate creditors, 55% for ten weeks if he sought out a Las Vegas loan shark (borrow $2,000, repay $3,100-or else...
Linda Ronstadt, this high-wattage waif, would be a rarity if all she had done were to survive for twelve years in the shark-infested deeps of rock. In fact, each of her last four albums has "gone platinum" - sold better than a million copies - and her last two, Hasten Down the Wind and Linda Ronstadt: Greatest Hits, reached sales of a million in a matter of weeks. Before Christmas she finished a wildly cheered six-month tour of the U.S. and Europe, during which audiences of 15,000 were common...
...here. I ordered three hot and sour and two shark fin. You got it exactly backward. The moo shu pork came without any pancakes and where are the lichee nuts...
Greed is the theme of the play, greed so compelling as to raise it to an obsessive lust for money. In this reincarnation, the setting has become San Francisco in the 1890s. Volpone has become Foxwell J. Sly, played with shark's-tooth gusto by George C. Scott. Rich and childless. Sly feigns grave illness in order to arouse the hopes of avaricious, fawning and wealthy townsfolk who hope to become his heir...