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Lurking behind the statistics are daily degradations that account for the dread most New Yorkers feel upon descending into the underworld at any hour. It is astounding that residents of one of the world's greatest cities must submit to a daily assault of subterranean sights, sounds and smells so fraught with menace. At rush hour in the Times Square station, where eight of the city's busy lines converge, a man urinates against a wall, loudly talking to no one in particular. On one platform, waiting passengers cover their ears as a mass of hurtling steel comes screeching from...
When he returns, he finds George dead from a drug overdose. Slowly, he retraces the steps of his brother's life only to discover that while posing as a physician, George was in fact a pusher. Gerald soon finds himself embroiled in the drug underworld that killed his brother and spells the same fate for him in the end, Gerald "saw that George had been right. They only had one life, and it meant one thing--the same life, the same death." Unfortunately, the story depends on a surprise ending which fails to produce the desired effect...
...intelligence reports estimated that Suarez's coca operations were earning him $400 million a year. In an effort to catch him, U.S. antinarcotics forces launched one of the most elaborate sting operations in the DEA's history. A dozen agents posed as underworld financiers and traffickers. By purchasing $9 million worth of coca paste, they lured two alleged Suarez associates to Miami for the payoff--and arrested them. As a result of the operation, Suarez was indicted by a Miami federal grand jury: so far, however, he has eluded his pursuers. He has also repeatedly denied any involvement...
...acting is uniformly remarkable, given the dramatic quicksand in which the cast is drowning. Richard Gere avoids getting by on his gooooooood looks and instead makes the most of his dramatic moments playing a good kid shocked and fascinated at the dirty dealings of the underworld. Diane Lane just the right mix of street-survivor and sensitivity, making her an inspiring and sympathetic character...
Thrust among them is a fictional couple, both, fittingly enough, students of social anthropology. Allan Archibald, a moneyed North Shore Wasp, witnesses the murder of the reporter and on a bet undertakes to write a scholarly paper about the Chicago underworld. Irena Giron, a brilliant but unworldly girl from the Polish ghetto "back of the yards," catastrophically encourages Allan to learn more about the style and ferocity of the syndicate. Organized Crimes is part political satire, part informal history, part rumination on the Depression, part love story between the rich boy poor in spirit and the poor girl rich...