Word: shnooks
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...Irishman (Robert De Niro) who cuts Henry in on the biggest hijacking in American history; Henry's testimony sends him to jail. The lad's only regret is for himself. At the end, he's still alive, but "I get to live the rest of my life like a shnook...
...true picture of crime, with its permanent sense of insecurity, its blunders, its lack of intelligence and trust. And then there is the source of Hill's current misery. "I'm an average nobody," he complains. "I get to live the rest of my life like a shnook." Pileggi draws no moral, but it is obvious that for a wiseguy, life as a shnook is almost worse than death by piano wire...
...central character is the rebellious, goofy boy who becomes a college dropout, an AWOL sailor, a protesting scholar and a waiflike pornographer. He could be a mere shnook. But as shrewdly played by Jack Gilpin, he is a natural winner with a compulsion to foul up to prove his independence. Ann McDonough, in the unshowy part of the girl, is compelling in the play's best moment: having married Gilpin's conventional younger brother, she sees Gilpin come through the window in his sailor's uniform to woo her away. She is all but ready...
...mole," American Aristocrat Michael Straight, Safire cracked, "How delicious it must have been for a Red under the bed to deride Joe McCarthy for looking for Reds under the bed." In a column labeled "The Midterm Crisis," Safire counseled: "Mr. Reagan must dispense with his I-am-not-a-shnook defensiveness...
WHEN IT COMES to the little shnook who keeps us other shnooks laughing, one has to cut through the anxieties with the relentlessness of a hedgecutter slicing through spam. Here is an ugly redhead who is not only rich, famous and unhappy, but considered also to be sexually attractive by many beautiful women, some of whom do not have analysts. Stranger things have happened of course. One has difficulty remembering what they...