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...organized crime has been known by federal agents and many police investigators since it was established in 1931 after a bloody gang war among the New York clans. The first taped evidence of the commission's makeup was acquired by the FBI in 1959 when bugs placed in a tailor shop on Chicago's North Michigan Avenue caught Tony Accardo, the city's boss, ticking off those members of the commission he thought would support his gang in a dispute with the Bonanno family...
...still they breed, obeying the first law of commerce: You tailor your product to your market. More than half the U.S. movie audience is in the 12- to-24 age group, so Hollywood keeps grinding out these smudged, cracked fun- house mirrors of teendom. It matters not that most megahits cast their nets over broader demographics. Teenpix come close to guaranteeing a decent return on a modest financial and creative investment. They will keep coming until Chip and Wendy Q. Public weary of seeing their screen doubles lose their virginity for the zillionth time to an MTV beat...
...changes proposed to deal with the problems of subjectivity and reliability were a different statistical approach, and tailor-made questionnaires for each field...
...takes tea with earls as easily as he takes the lead down the stretch. When he doffs his racing silks, he often dons a fine tweed jacket (courtesy of his Savile Row tailor) or a cashmere sweater and, yes, an ascot on occasion. If he is not on the track, he might be found on a golf course or perhaps riding to hounds with the local gentry. His manners are impeccable, complemented by a bearing that is slightly distant. His accent is what practiced observers of the Anglo-American scene have always called, with a touch of condescension, mid-Atlantic...
...works that have borrowed on the Philby affair, the most successful has been John Le Carre's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, a maze-like thriller that details the entrapment and confession of a double agent. It was Le Carre who gave currency to the word "mole," a term denoting a traitor implanted deep in an intelligence network that is now a fixed part of espionage jargon. And while Le Carne and others like him explore the professional side of the celebrated case, others concentrate on the story's personal dimensions. This summer's highly acclaimed film, Another Country, based...