Word: consiglieri
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What occurred was a remarkable tale of triumphs and bungles, of Brooklyn consiglieri and Milan Mafiosi, of chases along New York City's Fifth Avenue and gun-toting criminals tailing intelligence agents along Italian autostrade. So secret was the operation that not even U.S. Ambassador to Italy Maxwell Rabb was aware of it until TIME Correspondent Jonathan Beaty, accompanied by Rome Correspondent Barry Kalb, questioned the diplomat two weeks ago. Beaty's report...
...Taxi Driver and Jake of Raging Bull all share a public-ness of neurosis that make De Niro's roles almost painful to watch. Duvall keeps it inside, waiting to explode. He is, in a way, almost scarier, because the energy is all potential, temporarily under wraps. The consiglieri of Godfather I and II, the capitalist visionary of Network, and, most of all, Col. Kilgore of Apocalypse Now can never exactly make clear--as De Niro always does--what has gone wrong inside and what that means...
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