Word: underworld
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Brown Derby restaurant and won the movie roles that led to his breakthrough in Scarface (1932). In his later years his career lagged, and he was barred from re-entering England because of associations with real-life mobsters including Bugsy Siegel and Dutch Schultz. He maintained that the unsavory underworld image that clung to him was "my gimmick-it was the only way the public would accept...
...adds up to an uncompromising future for the man who claimed he had Philadelphia's underworld under his thumb. Myers' chances of taking this election, according to the Inquirer's political reporter, stand at "a million to one"--a slightly higher figure than Abscam dangled in dollar signs before Myers' eyes...
...Ticket, for example, a group of Muscovite dropouts run away to the Baltic beaches to escape the crushing conservatism of their elders. Old guard critics were scandalized, as much by the "uncivic" behavior of Aksyonov's heroes and heroines as by their use of colloquial speech, mixed with underworld and concentration-camp slang, invented words and such Americanisms as gudbai, Brodvei and bugi-vugi. Funny, fresh and richly expressive, Aksyonov's idiom has been his contribution to the larger effort of modern Russian poets to rescue the Russian language from deadening officialese...
They even hired a former police officer to introduce them to the gamy underworld of New York pickpockets and ID-card fixers. Gaddafi was selected as the fictional blackmailer, explains Lapierre, "because he was not susceptible to [U.S.] reprisals, having such a small population and all that sand...
...ends with a cockamamie implication that love will conquer all -even the false, but seemingly airtight, murder rap. Such a conclusion betrays everything the film has so carefully built up -the easily victimized Gere character, the hypocrisy of the chic world he has risen to, the viciousness of the underworld which spawned him and retains its vicious claim...