Word: gangsters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Happy End, a musical currently revived by New Haven's Yale Repertory Theater, is really a larky 1929 gangster movie. The setting is Chicago in Bill Cracker's gin mill. Bill (Charles Levin) is very tough but no match for the Lady in Gray, otherwise known as "the Fly" (Elizabeth Parrish...
...Indochina reporter has heard many such claims before. Indeed, soon it will be 20 years since Graham Greene introduced his Quiet American, convinced that "what the East needs is a Third Force." In Greene's book, the "third force" was a gangster distinguished from the first force (now it is Thieu in Saigon, then it was the French in Hanoi) chiefly by his lack of officially recognized political power...
...Rockefeller. 69. American big business. 70. Dsitributing dimes among children. 71. He disapproved of the picture of Lenin. 72. He observed that the average Arab oil country makes more in a single day than his family does in a year. 73. Jay Gould, robber baron. 74. Al Capone, gangster. 75. Fear itself; between 14 and 17 million. 76. Hoover, in 1928. 77. The Federal Reserve System. 78. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Securities Exchange Commission, and the Federal Reserve System. 79. The company was cited in oil scandals, and stock became worthless within months of Veblen's investment...
...life. Robert De Niro is excellent as the young Don; Coppola's reconstruction of life in Little Italy around the year 1918 is obviously a work of love as well as research. Somehow, however, it is not as effective as the later story. From the beginning of the gangster genre in movies, we have been offered the same explanation for what makes a man go wrong: immigrants were kept out of the mainstream of American life and had to find success outside the law. No one has handled this theme more expertly than Coppola, but still it is very...
...notion that he is tragically flawed -which the warmly colored historical sections are designed in part to reinforce through contrast-is essential to understanding him. In the context of what is, after all, a gangster picture, that is a tall and slightly pretentious order...