Word: mafioso
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...probably prefers Renaissance French literature to organized crime, and there have been no reports of bloody horse heads in the bedsheets of Eliot residents—but Pertile is, in fact, Italian. The natural corollary, then, seems to be that the Don of Eliot can be compared to a mafioso and potentially emblazoned as such on the House t-shirt...
...Italian American, I find it offensive that one would associate Lino with a terrible mafioso just because he is Italian. This is comparable to calling a German housemaster a Nazi, or an African American housemaster a Gangster...
...local celebrity, Alperon once allowed a TV crew into his home, where he and his wife, a stylish blonde with a Ph.D. in philosophy, were interviewed by a top model. Afterward, the interviewer, Yael Goldman, remarked soberly, "You see The Sopranos, and it sounds good thinking that some charming [Mafioso] will walk you into the sunset. But in reality, they're quite frightening." And that was with Alperon on his best behavior...
...Cappellani’s novel has all the trappings of a classic comedy. Set in the heart of a Sicilian summer, the novel is divided into three “acts” and focuses primarily on two blossoming romances—one between the middle-aged mafioso Alfio Turrisi and Betty, the daughter of his rival, and the other between theater director Tino Cagnotto and his paramour Bobo, an aspiring young actor. Both of these storylines play with Shakespeare’s own romantic plots. Although Betty’s father urges her to fall in love with Turrisi...
...FARC's overwhelming strength sprang from sources as mafioso as they were military. After the demise of Colombian drug cartel bosses like Pedro Escobar, the FARC stepped into the vacuum and earned hundreds of millions of dollars each year protecting traffickers as well as the growers of coca, cocaine's raw material. The guerrillas earned just as much via ransom kidnapping - they're estimated to hold more than 700 Colombian army, police and civilian hostages today, including three U.S. defense contractors whom the FARC abducted...