Word: mafioso
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...effect, Pasquale and the other inmates must choose either to do whatever may be necessary to survive, however vile, or be willing to die. Pasquale's character is defined by his acceptance of this choice, by his willingness to do anything in order to live. As a low level Mafioso in pre-war Naples, known as Pasqualino Settebellezze (Seven Beauties) because of his inexplicable success with women despite his unattractiveness, he kills the local pimp who has corrupted his less than pristine sister, in the defense of family honor. Having failed to dispose of the body undetected, Pasqualino must choose...
...attentive and anxious to please -the kind of man who could be "anybody's grandfather," according to one of his new acquaintances. But the witness was a good deal more than he appeared, and the scene and the situation last week were extraordinary. John Roselli, 69, a known Mafioso, was willingly appearing before Senator Frank Church's Senate intelligence committee to talk freely not of gangland matters but of how he had tried to help the CIA kill Cuba's Premier Fidel Castro...
Arture Ui. Now that Boston's "legitimate theater" owners have told the city they will be closing up shop, this could be their swansong. Like Richard Chamberlain going "legitimate" from "Dr. Kildare" to the Prince of Denmark. Al Pacino, erstwhile brooding introspective mafioso, is trying to be even more serious as Arturo Ui Bracht's version of the Hitler-as-gangster phenomenon. Opens Wednesday May 7 at the Charles Playhouse downtown on Warrenton Street...
...Mafioso massacre? A bank heist? A CIA caper? In fact, the I hired agents are armed with a cream pie. Their mission: to smash the pie into the face of a local office employee who is celebrating his 26th birthday. The two agents, hired by the celebrator's merry-minded boss for $35 (pie included), are operatives of Pie Face International, one of a growing number of organizations across the country dedicated to the silliest U.S. fad since streaking: smashing pies into the faces of selected victims-for a price...
...Coppola's view, Vito becomes a mafioso partly by accident and partly out of revenge for his family's destruction. But his film is not a study of the origins of the underworld. It doesn't tell us much about the underworld's organization, either, or about the bases of its power in a corrupt system, in a country whose basic premises of economic exploitation pass naturally, without a whimper, from the barely legal to the outright illegal. The Godfather II is like dynastic history--full of human interest, good gossip, and referring in passing to more important, underlying historical...