Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation's bootlegging operations. Aside from Newark and Jersey City, much of the state retained a rural character until the opening of the George Washington Bridge in 1931. New Jersey suited the underworld's needs perfectly. The Hudson River separated its members from the tough law enforcement of New York racketbusters like Fiorello La Guardia, Thomas Dewey and, more recently, Frank Hogan. Neither police forces nor local government had caught up with the state's sudden population growth. To make matters worse, officials were only too eager to accommodate the free-spending gangsters...
...might have been a textbook coup. The obvious dissidents were carted off to jail. The radio stations broadcast the news calmly, and there was no panic in the streets. But the colonels had miscalculated in one vital area: most of the Guardia remained loyal to the tough, personable 40-year-old general, who had promoted many of the junior officers...
...Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act, Congress' tough response to popular demands for stronger action against crime...
Polonsky's talents were marked and sharpened by the rhetoric of Depression politics. The result is that, on occasion, his script blows its otherwise immaculate cool-as when a poolroom tough delivers one of those drunken "I'll-tell-you-what-democracy-is" speeches. Although Redford and Clark are both excellent in their roles, Katharine Ross offers a major challenge to credibility as Willie's Indian girl, called Lola in the film. She looks little like an Indian and is obviously too refined to act like...
Last summer Jimmy Breslin, a licensed sentimental tough-guy journalist, startled New York by running in the Democratic primary for the office of president of the city council on Norman Mailer's ticket. Now, running for the office of tough comic novelist, Breslin proves slightly more deft with bullets than he did with ballots...