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Word: stradinoff (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
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Octopus opens with a slapstick scene in New York City's Palace restaurant. A Sicilian Mafioso is trying to pass off stolen "Tiepido" and "Van Go" paintings and "Stradinoff" violins to an undercover agent with a recorder sewn into the crotch of his shorts. It was 1977, and the detective didn't know that he was talking to a key player in a drug network newly launched by the Sicilians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Real Mafia | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

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