Word: underworld
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people cherish superstitions about the bill, Ferranti-Dege employees said. "People thought they were bad luck," said James J. Casey, assistant manager at Ferranti-Dege. He said one of the reasons the bills were originally discontinued in the 1950s was because many people associated them with gambling and the underworld, partly because they were commonly used for placing two-dollar bets at racetracks...
...criminals' speech. He even begins to write in some jokes. (One of the con men talks about being a member of "the United States of Kiss My Ass.") As in some of his plays, such as American Buffalo and especially Glengarry Glen Ross, Mamet is fascinated with the underworld businessman. Mamet's crooks have most of the same qualities of normal nine to fivers. Their business is riskier but it has its own rules and its own drudgery...
...intended to carry the spirits of the dead on their eternal journey around the earth with the sun-god Ra. They disagree, though, about whether they are so-called solar boats built for the day-time sojourn across the sky or ships intended for the nighttime voyage through the underworld. Still others speculate that they were simply funerary boats used to ferry Cheops' body down the Nile for burial. Whatever the purpose, Egyptian officials must now decide how to display their new, but still untouched, vessel...
...been attacked by would-be assassins, abducted by men who claim to be protecting him and, having made his escape, reduced to the status of a fugitive in rags who fears for his life and does not know where he will be safe. As he descends into the underworld, haunted by undercover agents and herded from truck to shadowy truck, the highest cleric in the land finds himself in touch for the first time with the masses he claims to represent. He also finds himself increasingly, and in every way, in the dark...
...whitewashes the Boss, but he adds another dimension to the celebrated Thomas Nast drawings of Tweed as a vulture, a bloated moneybag and Falstaff. En route the author vigorously and accurately portrays his real hero: the city, with its teeming and angry slums, frantic mix of ethnic groups, riots, underworld schemers and high-level scandals, demonstrating that in New York, the more things change, the more they are the shame...