Word: skyscraperism
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Since then, Barnes, who is self-educated and a constitutional-law buff, managed to work his way up from just another Harlem pusher to the reputed Godfather of a multimillion-dollar drug empire. In the process, he is said to have established a close and profitable relationship with the Mob...
An intimate acquaintance of several English tongues, Partridge was born into the proper English of New Zealand and was introduced to Australian slang as a student at the University of Queensland. He later served with the Australian army in World War I-thereby learning the military idiom-before ending his...
The effect is disjointed from the opening sequence, a frenzied victory celebration in a skyscraper nightclub where Tommy Dorsey's orchestra is doing a radio spot. Unemployed Sax Player Jimmy Doyle (Robert De Niro), on a spree in his sporty new civvies, picks up ex-U.S.O. Singer Francine...
Investigators blamed the accident on the collapse of a knuckle-sized strut attachment bracket in the forward right landing gear-because of "metal fatigue." Federal authorities ordered an inspection of the landing gears on all S-61s. New York community groups renewed their denunciation of the skyscraper service as unsafe...
To report this week's cover story on the Mafia, our third in eight years, TIME correspondents in five major cities interviewed local federal authorities, talked with gangsters and followed their elusive tracks into casinos, pizza parlors, skyscraper offices and political hangouts. Covering the Mob casts the reporter in...