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DIED. Frank ("Three Fingers") Coppola, 82, multimillionaire Mafia capo who was linked to murder, prostitution, gambling and drugs; of a stroke; in Aprilia, near Rome. Once a partner of "Lucky" Luciano in Detroit, the Sicilian-born Mafioso was deported as an illegal alien in 1948. In Italy he became a don of international drug trafficking. Coppola fought his deportation from the U.S., insisting that he was actually a "nice guy." U.S. Senator John McClellan disagreed, however, saying: "Even though he only has three fingers, they are involved in everything...
...part of the Israeli people. There is no one in Israel who has not lost a relative or close friend or mate in a war against the Arabs; there has never been a time when Israelis could feel completely safe from attack. This collective experience, so totally alien to an American outlook, made a great impression on me when I lived in Israel last year. It was all the more heartening, therefore, to hear someone like my adopted kibbutz mother-a woman who lost her husband in the Yom Kippur War-stand firmly by her belief in compromise with...
...distinction that ultimately keeps minorities in their ghettos. "What I needed to learn in school was that I had the right-and the obligation-to speak the public language of los gringos," writes Rodriguez. "Only when I was able to think of myself as an American, no longer an alien in gringo society, could I seek the rights and opportunities necessary for full public individuality...
...analogous to cubism. It jams the sense of illusionary depth and delivers the surface to the rule of the flat shape, which was the quintessential modernist strategy. In color, in tonal structure, and in its contradictory lighting, Rubin argues, De Chirico's style up to 1918 "was as alien to its supposed classical, 15th century models as it was dependent on the Parisian painting of its own moment." This view of De Chirico as formalist fits all the evidence, and rids the artist of a great deal of accumulated "poetic" waffle. It also helps one to distinguish...
...tones and textures of their voices or other voices. Even her worst poems are valid experiments displaying the voices of people Harris has heard, people who don't speak the way she would write. In these poems the language rings somewhat flat because Harris is uneasy using certain alien voices. At her best, Harris ties together the different voices with a strong, frank thread...