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...camera or raise a curtain on him and the reticent, barely descript DeNiro undergoes a metamorphosis. In Bang the Drum Slowly, he remade himself into a slovenly, Southern-bumpkin, baseball player; in Mean Streets, into a jittery, petty street hoodlum. Now, with his portrayal of the young Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather, Part II, DeNiro, 31, has come fully and formidably into his own as a character actor of range and depth...
What would the old Modern pick from the bewildering landscape of a decayed avant-garde in the 1970s? The result, though not wholly predictable, is not very surprising. Most of the eight artists are under 40 and (with the exception of a body-artist and performer named Vito Acconci) work in the area where minimalism makes contact with conceptual art. It is a grayed-out, low-pressure, cool show, and its pleasures are decidedly mixed...
Unchallenged for re-election in 1948, Nixon raised his sights in 1950 and ran for the Senate against Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas, a former actress. It would be, he said, a "rocking, socking campaign." That was putting it mildly. Nixon issued a "pink sheet" showing that Douglas and Vito Marcantonio, a Communist-lining Congressman from New York's East Harlem, had cast 354 identical votes in the House. A lot of others had voted with Marcantonio on many issues, including Nixon, who sided with him 112 times out of roughly 200 votes. Still, the tactic earned Douglas a label...
...Lists of congressional votes on which Douglas had taken the same stand as Rep. Vito Marcantonio (Amer. Labor...
...Shots. Criminal organizations are no newcomers to the nation's 700 federal and state correctional facilities. Mafia chieftains like Vito Genovese have seldom found it difficult to control many prison activities and sometimes outside operations from their cells. Even without certified big shots, few penitentiaries have ever been free of jailyard governments that enforce rules and pecking orders among inmates. It was the civil rights movement of the '60s that brought a new turn in prison society. Just as it did for other groups, the movement helped raise political consciousness among prison inmates...