Word: sicilianism
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...politicians go. For my money, the best political film ever made is called Salvatore Giuliano, and was made by an Italian Marxist. Francesco Rosi, in 1962. He was one of the first of his countrymen to reveal the linkages of local corruption in any hardnosed way, while debunking Sicilian outlaw mythology. Rosi shows what really happened to the legendary Guihano after World War II, when he was paid by the Mafia to attack growing native Communism, and then was himself assassinated. Rosi was not interested in the emotional dynamics of the situation, only in the political case at hand, making...
...organization, the Union Corse is more tightly knit and more secretive than its Sicilian counterpart. U.S. agencies have been able to obtain information from all levels of the Mafia clans in the U.S., but not from the Union Corse. "When the Mafioso is spilling his guts," says one U.S. intelligence official, "the Corsican is still silent-refusing even to give you his name." In the early 1960s, for instance, a Union Corse member who called himself Antoine Rinieri was arrested in New York with a suspected narcotics payoff of $247,000 in cash. In the Corsican tradition, he refused...
...Named for a Mafia contingent that originated in the Sicilian town of Castellammarese del Golfo...
Almirante himself, a green-eyed, graying Parma native of Sicilian ancestry, is an example of his own strategy. He has successfully smothered a fanatical past that included bitter-end service in Mussolini's last government and membership in the hated "Black Brigades" that hunted down Italian partisans. Now he is a well-tailored, low-keyed political leader. A spellbinding if somewhat long-winded orator, Almirante is in the midst of a whirlwind campaign in which he will make 230 speeches in 70 days, preaching the new neofascist message of propriety...
Survival Test. Although Pacino was a long shot who had to overcome both Paramount's skepticism and some big-name competition to win his role (TIME, March 13), no member of the cast has a more appropriate background for the movie. Of mostly Sicilian descent, he was raised in the South Bronx, a place that is less a neighborhood than a survival test. He was a solitary boy who used to hide out for hours atop an advertising billboard and who lived in fantasies spawned by the movies his mother took him to see. (His father, a mason...