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...past 20 years, other Big Apple bosses have courted celebrity. Gambino-family boss John (the Dapper Don) Gotti would saunter in his $2,000 suits, bantering with TV reporters; Genovese family boss Vincent (Chin) Gigante, feigning dementia, would wander through Greenwich Village in his bathrobe and slippers. The American public, fed on spicy tales of colorful men who rose from poverty to power and used violence to defend their honor, demanded star quality in its bad guys. Gotti and Gigante provided it. The suspicion is that both men bought dangerously into the Mafia movie myth. They wanted...
...study, released last week by Dr. Jonathan Tilly of the Vincent Center for Reproductive Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital, involves the discovery of germ stem cells in the ovaries of adult mice...
...them were as rusty as us,” senior Vincent Porter said...
Heeding Freshman Dean Wendy E.F. Torrance’s advice to “direct your inquiry to the Office for Undergraduate Education,” was only met with disappointment; when FM received little information from Associate Dean of Academic Affairs Vincent Tompkins, who “didn’t know the history behind our current grading structure,” we knew that something...
...there, and during his tumultuous few months of living and working with Vincent van Gogh in Arles, that he developed the elements of his mature style--firmly modeled foreground figures against flat ranges of background color. The pigments are abruptly juxtaposed in the Impressionist manner. Landscape in Gauguin is likely to be a furious collision of hot pink against blue and chrome yellow against vermilion. But he would put behind him the short fluttering brushstrokes that the Impressionists had made their sign of the fleeting moment. Gauguin distilled and abstracted, producing an emotional impression, not an optical one, in which...