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...Gambinos emerged almost unscathed from the post-Apalachin investigations and gang wars that drained the strength of the other clans. More important, a new strongman arose in the Gambino family to function as Carlo's underboss: Aniello Dellacroce (literally, "little lamb of the cross"). A throwback to the Syndicate's more flamboyant days, Dellacroce, 58, keeps a hunting lodge in Canada, a beach house in Miami, and several mistresses. He also possesses a fund of brutal expertise learned when he was one of Albert Anastasia's principal hired assassins...
Northcliffe's topics were a throwback to his first publication, the weekly Answers, which consisted of replies to questions-sometimes invented by the editor-on how tall Gladstone was (5 ft. 9 in.), or how many M.P.s had glass eyes (three). A touch of Answers lingered in all his newspapers. Northcliffe's curiosity was boundless, his attention span brief, his commitments transient. But, says Ferris, he knew "exactly what to do about telephones, cars, Boers and the disgraceful export of British horses to make sausages for the Belgians...
Baton Rouge (pop. 166,000), the capital of Louisiana, is an anomaly, a throwback to an earlier South in which black complaints were bitter but rarely voiced. Though blacks are 28% of the population, they account for only 12% of the police force. It is an unspoken rule that the black cops do not arrest whites. Nor do the city's blacks often demonstrate or make demands...
...skillfully concentrates on a slightly different audience, using a story about class consciousness, a camp follower with a heart of gold, courage, and coming of age in the British army's retreat from Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. A discreet amour in a moonlit glade is an agreeable throwback to the decorous ways of Horatio Hornblower...
What happens to a musician after an accident? Dylan became more serene and reflective. Beck too has changed; maybe only slightly, but he's changed. Perhaps he doesn't want to be labeled as a fossil, a throwback to the late '60's. Whatever the reason, his music appears to be smoother and more refined. At least when he's in the studio...