Word: sicilian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There he rides the coattails of a rising Boston politician named James Michael Curley. Because the Curley machine needs Boston's Italian North End in its pocket, Brady arranges a pardon for a notorious Sicilian Mafioso named Gennaro Anselmo. Dishonesty continues to lure Brady: he builds an insurance empire through which his new friend Gennaro sluices his racketeer's profits. Carroll's message is an old one: with such mortally dangerous friends, one needs no enemies. Time and again, the man who won his first fame by setting up an ambush is himself waylaid by his friends...
Cardinal Borella. It is easy to imagine Borella blithely exchanging a dispensation for a substantial "offering" earlier on in the book. But it seems vaudeville villainy when the Sicilian prelate, learning casually about young Brady's connection with Robert Kennedy's investigation, warns the Mafia in Boston...
There are some artists whose precocity almost seems a curse, and one of them is Frank Stella, a wiry, taciturn American of Sicilian descent who turns 42 next month but whose work must seem (to younger painters) to have been around forever. For ten years, from the moment in 1960 when his black pinstripe paintings were exhibited at Manhattan's Castelli Gallery, Stella's work was one of the main points around which the critical debates of that logorrheic decade precipitated themselves...
...glass eye that cannot blink. His work belongs in the context of photorealist painting, but it incorporates more illusions than painting can. The great period for waxworks was the 17th to 18th century, when the favorite court artist of the next-to-last Medici, Cosimo III, was a Sicilian named Gaetano Zumbo, whose fiendishly detailed wax tableaux of plague-rotted bodies are still preserved in Florence. Hanson's proles, drunks, junkies and bulgy housewives do not reek of mortality like that, but they have a quotidian sourness about them, and their smell of perplexed defeat is as alluring...
...develops that Leroy's wife has been made pregnant by a chicken-flickin' preacher. Leroy declares that vengeance will be his (more Sicilian tomato sauce) and sets out to seduce the preacher's wife. Pryor plays the preacher's role-essentially the same cash-unto-me evangelist he has done on television-with superbly lubricious piety, and also plays Leroy's father, an impressively dirty old man who should have been given more lines...