Word: sicilianism
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...modern farce about the hundreds of midgets and dwarfs who went to Hollywood to play the Oz Munchkins, and by their lewd shenanigans cut the town down to size. Rainbow's plot is serviceably convoluted, involving a Secret Service agent (Chevy Chase), a paranoid Graustarkian duke and his Sicilian assassin-in-waiting, a pair of Axis spies, 25 Japanese camera buffs, four dead dogs and 150 little people. (Make that 151: Carrie Fisher plays their den mother.) But Director Steve Rash's pacing is slack, the lighting is inappropriately murky, and eventually one tires of the endless string...
...secret organization. What makes the P2 affair especially explosive, however, is the specter of the vast conspiracy raised in an investigating magistrates' report that also was divulged by Forlani. The scandal originally came to light during an investigation by Milan judicial officials into the affairs of Sicilian Financier Michele Sindona, an accused P2 member currently serving a 25-year prison sentence in the U.S. for fraud in connection with the 1974 collapse of the Franklin National Bank. Investigating magistrates claimed to have found evidence that lodge members had helped Sindona skip bail in New York in 1979 by faking...
...truly believes his cause is to help save the adversary system. The son of a Sicilian-born father, who is a doctor, and an Irish-American mother, Cucinotta keeps little American flags around the house. After learning that the Supreme Court would hear his case, he went to Washington to look at the court building. "I was moved. I kissed the steps," he says. "Well, not really." He kisses his hand and slaps the kitchen stove. "Like that...
...drab villa in Trabia, a seaside resort 19 miles from Palermo, Sicilian police uncovered a virtual gold mine: the largest heroin laboratory yet found in Western Europe. Police estimated that the lab could produce up to 50 kg of heroin a day, worth $7.5 million on the New York wholesale market. The officers also arrested two French chemists, both veterans of the defunct Marseilles laboratories that once were a link in the famed French connection, and the lab's alleged boss, a suspected Mafioso, who was wearing a wig. As it was pulled off, he announced, "Eccomi qui" (Here...
...regularly tapped his home phone, forcing him to place calls from out-of-the-way booths; as an extra precaution, he conducted business in his native Sicilian dialect. Twice a week, law enforcement officials dutifully collected his trash. Digging through the coffee grounds and other garbage, they hit pay dirt: notes by Bonanno of phone conversations concerning his sons' business activities, which enabled federal authorities to piece together evidence that Bonanno and DiFilippi had conspired to withhold records from the grand jury and influence witnesses...