Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Quincy House film society is unabashedly biased toward the blockbusters. "We avoid French and Italian movies that nobody's every heard of," says Trip A. Switzer '86. "We play the hits...
Students quaff these unknowns together, in recreated dorm rooms, in order for environments to resemble as much as possible those which the students experience when taking drugs on their own. "We play chess or even basketball, take walks, do homework. They give us dinner, chips with dip, order-out Italian food...They treat us much better than Harvard--and we're getting paid [to do this]," says one subject...
...hallway is known as Gucci Gulch, after the expensive Italian shoes they wear. At tax-writing time, the Washington lobbyists line up by the hundreds in the corridor outside the House Ways and Means Committee room, ever vigilant against the attempts of lawmakers to close their prized loopholes. Over near the House and Senate chambers, Congressmen must run a gauntlet of lobbyists who sometimes express their views on legislation by pointing their thumbs up or down. Not long ago, Senator John Danforth, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, could be seen on the Capitol steps trying to wrench his hand...
...Italian police say Greco is the chief of the commission that oversees all Mafia operations in Sicily, including the lucrative heroin trade to the U.S. Until last week he was one of the 112 in absentia defendants in the mammoth Mafia trial now going on in Palermo. He is charged, among other things, with having ordered 90 murders, including the 1982 slaying of General Alberto Dalla Chiesa, the former prefect of Palermo. Greco, who has been in hiding since 1982, is already under a life sentence for ordering the 1983 murder of a Palermo magistrate. His capture represents yet another...
...Irish electrician and an Italian mother, Hill entered the crime business at age eleven, when he took a part-time job at a Brooklyn taxi stand run by the brother of a local mob boss. Under the capo's tutelage, Hill slowly learned how to run crap games, pass off counterfeit money, torch buildings for a fee and, finally, how to take over businesses and squeeze them dry. Along the crooked way, he married a nice middle-class girl from Long Island, who realized rather late that her husband was not just another up-and- coming businessman...