How To Use Gangster In A Sentence
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Because it's basically like a film noir grifter gangster story and Ed's the leader of a con team and they do this complicated grift.
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He said you could appreciate directors who worked in gangster films, war films, westerns, etc.
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Many other sketches featured similar hard-men, many of them caricaturing the sort of psychopathic gangsters who would become prevalent in British films of the late 1990s.
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A blind criminal delivering money to a gangster forces a motel owner to act as his eyes when he discovers the cash has been stolen.
The Sun
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The characters are crude, profane gangsters who acknowledge only the class distinction of power.
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In another, an ageing yakuza gangster returns to a park where he used to meet his first love.
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Except the gangster is also forcing money from Jonah and Olaf, forcing the timid men to contemplate killing him to protect Stella and themselves.
Night Flights: March 2010 Edition « Screaming Blue Reviews
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The actress has a new movie coming out called Gloria, in which she is a leggy gangster's moll who suddenly has to take care of a sassy, streetwise kid.
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The Review, meanwhile, was uncovering the city's underworld, its gangsters and corrupt officials, its brutality and greed.
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Tom Hanks plays the part of an enforcer for a gangster during prohibition.
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Just as all happy families resemble one another, so all gangster family sagas resemble one another.
Times, Sunday Times
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Industry observers were stunned, with one saying that the ousting 'reeks of gangsterism'.
Times, Sunday Times
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Investigators and prosecutors must be seen to attack with full force the betrayers of the public trust who are aligned with the gangsters, racketeers and terrorists keeping this country under siege.
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Sherman typically enacts a series of portraits - Elizabethan whores, gangster's molls, and now a series of clowns.
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Moreover, in a recent subscribers issue of Counterpunch (Vol. 16, No. 7) Pam Martens describes the game-plan of the “Free-State Project” to take over the state of New Hampshire by force and create a laissez-faire society reminiscent of the wishes of Messrs. A and B and the gangsterish primary ponerogenic union, Club B, which I described inPart II.
Confucianism and the Impact of Sociopathy, Part III
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He wants to portray that gangster image, but he is a hard-working player.
Times, Sunday Times
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The writers have dispensed entirely with the usual gangster clichés of rap and hip-hop.
Times, Sunday Times
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But this time he has abandoned the fickle movie industry and veered into the music business, tangling with Russian mobsters and gangster rappers and taking a talented, feisty young singer named Linda Moon under his wing.
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Kurosawa initiated his best work in 1948 with Drunken Angel , in which he teamed Takashi Shimura ( as a blustery alcoholic doctor ) and a young Toshiro Mifune ( as a hotheaded gangster ) .
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Turn on the radio and without turning the dial you find one-hit wonders, wanna-be gangsters, lying fools, and most importantly autotune.
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In contrast, the dress code was strictly 1930s gangster chic, with the men in pinstripes and fedoras while the women sported shawls and feathered caps.
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I'm a mover of opinions, if you will; a raker of muck, a gangster of political science, a lethal phrasemaker, a ... well you get the idea.
Your Right Hand Thief
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‘Tinkerers’, I would say, write big stand-alone thrillers, military novels, espionage, techno-thrillers, gangster-themed books, and so on and so forth.
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Through suppression of information, cover-ups, lies and outright gangsterism, these industry heads sought to continue their conspiracy against the public.
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Small and medium enterprises are harassed by the state or gangsters' rackets.
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We have some problems with some gangsters over there and we're hunting them down and bringing them to justice.
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Adrianna is pivotal because her death proved for sure that Tony really is evil, without a redeeming quality, a pure gangster, period.
Scripting News for 6/9/2007 « Scripting News Annex
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The American business magazine decried the bear's "brutishness" and its threat to an interdependent world; labeled Russia "a gangster state" ruled by a "kleptocracy.
Foreign Policy In Focus
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The topical storyline also involves a top manager taking bungs from gangsters!
The Sun
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Big Mike whose real name is a Frenchie sounding Michel Lapointe aged 37, was in prison for conspiracy, drug trafficking and gangsterism in other words the bloke is a thug.
Old Bitter Balls
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The first federal gun legislation, the National Firearms Act of 1934, introduced controls on automatic weapons, sawed-off rifles and shotguns, and silencers, weapons popular with gangsters.
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The truck drivers also have to face gangsters who are allied with the military.
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Dave got one young gangster round the waist and pitched him off in a somersault.
THE SECRET OF THE FORGOTTEN CITY
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We would argue that a close review of leading gangsters and organised-crime figures would reveal quite a degree of ethnic diversity.
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The gangsters offered him a sum equivalent to a whole year's earnings.
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So now the Palestinians live under a murderous gangster cleptocracy in Yehuda and under a murderous Islamist dictatorship in Gaza, both headed by organizations who are committed both in writing and in fact to the end of Israel.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Correction on Israeli Visa Policy
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This is no great film, but to treat it like some made-for-TV biopic of an unknown Midwestern gangster and his ditzy moll is itself a crime.
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In one scene we see Vicki's complete incomprehension of the gangster talk that surrounds her.
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When Hell-Cat Maggie screeched her battle cry and rushed biting and clawing into the midst of a mass of opposing gangsters, even the most stout-hearted blanched and fled.
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The topical storyline also involves a top manager taking bungs from gangsters!
The Sun
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If his death teaches us anything, it is that anyone who acts the gangster is playing a potentially lethal game.
The Sun
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a witches' brew of gangsters and terrorists
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Angels with Dirty Faces" is a Cagney gangster pic.
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Juror was 'nobbled' in Liverpool gangster Curtis Warren trial, Court of Appeal hears next
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A "chimpira" is the lowest level of gangster and a term reserved for the most stupid gang members.
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The crooks range from small-time gangsters to big-time drug traffickers and international terrorists.
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The items, shown for the first time, give a rare insight into the lives of the notorious gangsters behind bars.
Times, Sunday Times
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Earlier, he dealt with vernacular quotations, including decorative evocations of the cults of American gangsterism and Elvis Presley, and kitsch phenomena such as biker heraldry.
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I can hardly think of a worse fate for any society than to be led into the future by the political class of gangsters, marauders, looters, and liars.
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Great crimes can also be committed by gangsters and petty criminals - if they have the necessary power.
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Then he ran a wildly popular purge of gangsters and corrupt policemen with death sentences and scant regard for legal niceties.
Times, Sunday Times
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His methods aren't subtle but when you have megalomaniacal ambitions it's easy not to be shy about getting your hands dirty while disposing of assorted Latino gangsters.
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But it's done nothing to silence the critics, who are still baying for a new, independent body to tackle crooked cops and underworld gangsters.
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In the video, he gets chased around by a gangster for a while and then celebrates getting away by having a bit of a boogie on a stage.
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New Russian is a euphemism for black-market pimp, smuggler, gangster, any tough young man with capitalist cash, and there are lots of them.
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In the first place, the film depicts some imaginary breed of gracious and principled gangsters.
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The DNA matched that of a gangster whose records were on a national criminal database, a police source said.
Times, Sunday Times
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I recall seeing her in a very good gangster film set in the south of France and co-starring Rod Steiger and Edward G. Robinson.
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The industrial practice of ‘annualisation’ may not seem the most promising screen material, but our own cinematic standbys of cheeky gangsters, clubland geezers and lovable young lads look pretty dreary in comparison.
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In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.
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In his new incarnation he meets another version of his wife, Alice, this time as a gangster's moll.
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A gangster tale set during Prohibition, it wears its mannered style like concrete boots.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ngayon ay hindi ko maghintay upang masimulan ang paglalaro sa aking bagong sistema ng seguridad sa bahay at ang mga camera Nagkakaroon ako ng mga naka-install na sa paligid ng bahay, na kung saan ko kayang dahil nerds gumawa ng paraan ng mas maraming pera kaysa sa gangsters.
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And Posen is being proven right: The House voted to allow tariffs against China yesterday, with one member decrying the "clique of gangsters" in Beijing.
Wonkbook: House votes for China tariffs; net neutrality bill dead; Elizabeth Warren's first speech
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In true gangster fashion, our hero plans a classic double-cross, but ends up underestimating at least one of his foes.
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One may jib, like George Orwell, at Greene's belief that a brutally stupid gangster is capable of intellectual subtlety.
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There is some hammy acting, but the film gives an interesting insight into the gangster scene of the Sixties.
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After a rough and disputed contest - the aluminium industry was notorious for its murders and gangsterism - he won.
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The double-dealing and back-stabbing illustrated the attitude of the Boston Irish gangster to informers.
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Violence hangs in the air all around, with drug dealers, gangsters and street gangs combining to form a ring of terror.
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The 24-year-old singer is desperate to be cast in Universal Pictures' reboot of the classic 1983 Al Pacino gangster film.
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The first version of the play used the story line of a senior official's abduction by a Mafia boss as a prelude to the main plot which satirized politicians and gangsters.
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You might also hear the names Aunt Mary, skunk, boom, gangster, kif or ganja.
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Tarantino may be doing a pastiche of Kubrick's The Killing and other gangster pictures, but he is also, perhaps unconsciously, revisiting Sartre's hell.
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Dave got one young gangster round the waist and pitched him off in a somersault.
THE SECRET OF THE FORGOTTEN CITY
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Also from Miike, FanTasia screened Gozu, a film that begins with a crazed gangster who hallucinates that a tiny Chihuahua is ‘a trained Yakuza attack dog’ and smashes the hapless creature against a restaurant window.
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Bob 'Oskins's performance puts him up there with such movie gangster greats as Cagney and De Niro.
This week's new DVD & Blu-ray
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And while the Kray twins (whose gangster crime spree was a '60s sensation) aren't quite as notorious on these shores as Jack the Ripper, the murders and maimings echoing the Kray mayhem are just as gut-churning a challenge for DI Chandler (Rupert Penry-Jones), still smarting from his reputation as "the man who failed to find the Ripper.
Critic's Guide to Wednesday TV: The SNL Comedy Invasion, A New Whitechapel Case, and More!
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The gangsters used threats of violence to force the shopkeepers to pay up.
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But Lissovsky's biggest problem is to persuade the gangsters who frequent the club to settle their differences elsewhere.
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The gangsters offered him a sum equivalent to a whole year's earnings.
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Born in the city of Ulawood, his parents were killed by gangsters when he was only five years old.
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Both films are vivid riots of colour, rhythm and violence, full of gun-toting gangsters and visually opulent set pieces.
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“There is no such thing as outtalking me, outhustling me, outthinking me or outdressing me,” writes Lucas, 79, who was portrayed by Denzel Washington in the flick “American Gangster.”
Druglord ‘gangster’ fashion victim «
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JAPAN'S yakuza gangsters are losing their ‘Robin Hood’ image as the country's deepening recession forces them to target ordinary people.
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All police are pigs because they make the conscious decision to join an organization which is, basically, legal GANGSTERISM.
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That case hinged on an interpretation of the Hobbs act, a 1946 law aimed at thwarting gangsters from extorting interstate truckers.
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The gangsters from Romania made regular budget airline flights to pocket huge benefit handouts here.
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At one time the unions took pains to drive out the Communists from their midst but what often goes unsaid is that much of this is due to the dislike of Communists by gangsters.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Public Sector Unions
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The theme for Michael Caine's gangster film Get Carter, written at the age of 23, lays ricocheting trains, chilling harpsichord and funky tablas over a swaggering bass line.
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The paramilitary organisations on both sides have long since been political fronts for gangsterism and racketeering.
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We critics spend our time wondering why British cinema - lumbered with PC dullness and mockney gangsters - can't or won't capture the brilliant spirit of our best TV comedy.
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The new father was a former boss of a Chinese triad gang, and all his fellow gangsters were bound to show up.
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He progresses from juvie to prison, and from prison to full-fledged gangster.
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In many cases their jobs have simply disappeared, gangsters are helping themselves to the nation's treasures and such basic services as electricity and potable water are suddenly no longer reliably available.
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Even if he won't admit Leone as a direct influence, the film reinforces the sense that samurai movies and spaghetti westerns, gangster pics and Hollywood ‘oaters’ have long since become completely intertwined.
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It also provides a most appropriate outlet for the energies of our young people, helping to keep them away from unhealthy and anti-social activities, such as gangsterism, alcohol and drug abuse.
ANC Today
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Politics needs money to win elections and influence and pays little attention to the sources of this money (e.g., Japanese Liberal Democratic politicians and yakuza gangsters).
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Explosive relationship with the father, local gangster Vincent.
The Sun
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Both Alcatraz Island and The Last Gangster told the story of a racketeer sent to the Rock on tax evasion charges (as was Capone) who learns the hard way that this isn't any old hoosegow.
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The movie is based on the true story of a London gangster.
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In fact, many people believe gangsters and hoodlums are vicious and violent by nature.
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The story of Romeo and Juliet was reinvented as a Los Angeles gangster movie.
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Police, including six armed officers, swarmed over the area and the gangsters fled.
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Now he runs his own talent management and production company, Suspect Entertainment, hiring out himself and other reformed Hispanic - or cholo - gangsters to play the kind of roles they once had for real.
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He was in no sense a political prisoner, but a gangster and racketeer who rightly did six years in jail.
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They just wanted to play at being gangsters.
The Sun
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He wooed her with expensive gifts and sponsored her through Chica Med, a second-rate beauty pageant organizers concede was viewed as a cattle market by gangsters looking for new girls.
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The angel told the evangelist's evangel to a gang of fanged gangling gangsters.
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This is a counterrevolutionary organization, with a long history of gangsterism and thuggery against any and all left-wing political opponents.
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How have we as a nation arrived at a point where “dead-or-alive” global gangsterism is part of the public discussion?
Think Progress » Bill O’Reilly calls for the assassination
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Investigators and prosecutors must be seen to attack with full force the betrayers of the public trust who are aligned with the gangsters, racketeers and terrorists keeping this country under siege.
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You might also hear the names Aunt Mary, skunk, boom, gangster, kif or ganja.
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(initially i thought the title refered to some gangster theme ... and i thought it was a children's book version of some chicago mobster thing ... or something ...) 11: 23 AM
I Was a Rat! by Philip Pullman
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This is the first time in UK film that the hoodie gang, practised in petty crime, rather than snazzy gangsterism or striking violence, has been treated like big canvas outlaw antiheroes.
SXSW 2011: Joe Cornish on aliens, hoodies and Attack the Block
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Alone and agonizingly thirsty, the boy's thoughts travel through his violent past: his father's gruesome murder, his twin sister's abduction, his own thralldom to gangster culture: Everything I remember is too vivid.
The Book That Broke the Color Line
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The plot is a baffling array of gangster parody nonsense, sexist claptrap and kidnap chaos.
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I guess when it comes to the crunch, I'm just not suited to being a gangster's moll…
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But the face behind the mask resembles a gangster as much as a guerrilla, Jesse James as much as Robin Hood.
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The court sentenced the girl to a prison term of five to 10 years for abetting the murder of her former boyfriend by urging her gangster lover to commit the crime.
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If the images are to be believed the kind of guys slapping it on are bestubbled boxers in Wayne Rooney-style beanie hats, guys who wear visors and helmets, possibly preparatory to an important moon mission or some welding, and chaps jumping off tenement fire escapes after, one supposes, a bracing bout of unarmed combat with a cadre of desperate gangsters.
Magical weekend in Cardiff is in a league of its own
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In some way, you had to know he was a gangster, a killer, a mobster.
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And of course the fact that there are elections in the offing would have absolutely nothing to do with the timing of Michael's pronouncements that the group is a bunch of murderers, gangsters, cut-throats and crooks.
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In many inner-city neighbourhoods, children emulate gangster culture and profess scorn for those who succeed in school.
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It felt like the set of a gangster movie on a day off.
Times, Sunday Times
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Here, the aging gangster Sydney, long since retired from both his "hardass" days and his big-stakes gambling days, takes under his wing both the down-on-his-luck John and the sad-eyed prostitute/waitress Clementine Gwyneth Paltrow.
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As the story goes, gangster Al Capone smuggled mescal across the border and stayed in the village's first permanent rock structure, the Marine Club, a casino in Old Port.
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Words coined during the dark days of the 1930s such as "bankster", which is a mix of banker and gangster, are suddenly back in vogue as a younger generation of Europeans used to more than a decade of consumerism gets its first taste of dole queues.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
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One journalist jokingly asked whether it would be translated into tsotsi taal (gangster slang).
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Crime and gangsterism became a way of life for many youths and young adults.
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Furthermore, Safe Streets would hardly be applicable in Tortolita, where there are few streets and fewer gangsters.
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He was a gangster, a hoodlum, a thug: much less creative than his dad.
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Animal lover Mrs Trueman's funeral carriage was pulled by the horses used in the recent funeral of East End gangster Reggie Kray.
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A fugitive gangster takes refuge in a decadent rock star's London home.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the wake of his work, and that of his fellow mango gangsters, Miami has progressed from a culinary backwater to one of America's top 10 gastro-cities.
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These cross-class things never work in gangsterism.
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And I started to kind of mix in some of the facts of the life that I was living with the music, and we created a genre which they called gangster rap.
Rapper Ice-T Takes A Quiz On Pantyhose
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Her sister Christine is a gangster's moll, and Tommy, the right-hand-man to the boss, wants Michelle to be his lady.
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Adapted from the short stories of Damon Runyon, the show put on stage for the first time the gamblers, gangsters and shysters of the area around Times Square.
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The gangsters have chosen some of the most idyllic spots in Italy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hollywood and the music industry paints young people and guns as a dangerous mix - slow thinking, revengeful, thrill-seeking - a combination of hip gangster and Billy the Kid.
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He wrote a book called Cut-Throat, the true story of his uncle, the gangster, mercenary, drug-smuggler and gun-runner Rod McLean, who was married to his father's sister Susan.
The brothel paid for my school fees
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He was in no sense a political prisoner, but a gangster and racketeer who rightly did six years in jail.
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I'm not a big fan of contemporary rap, but I've started to rebuy some of my old school gangster rap and a bunch of old school hip-hop.
Another Puzzle from the Tower Bankruptcy Sale, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Constituencies are gerrymandered, kickbacks from public works are channelled back to the party through yakuza gangsters and key policy decisions are made by party elders behind closed doors.
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Any other director, saddled with such a self-evidently mediocre script, would simply churn out the kind of moralistic low-budget gangster pieces that thrived on the lower half of double-bills in the 40s.
T-Men
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Boris sought asylum in Britain after being threatened at gunpoint by Russian gangsters.
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The criminal big-shot, viewed in the distorting mirror of the satirist, is a parody of the American dream of success, ironizing the business ethic by the illegality of his methods as well as by his ultimate defeat; the inevitable fall of the big-time gangster creates a sense of entrapment in an economically determined reality.
Singing Soprano, While Dissin' the Bass: America's White Thug Love & Ethnically Acceptable Violence
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Salvadorean gangster prisoners hide cellphones in bowels
- Boing Boing
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Jasper spun, firing off several shots from his ray gun at Bobby before he hit the taut oxhide and was hurled back up into the air, wheeling his legs in kicks and punches to knock out the gangsters who grabbed at his knees.
Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware
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With a horseshoe pinkie ring refracting rays from the California sun and a gangster chalk-stripe suit that looked like it had been exhumed from the crypt of Frank Costello, Stone was there to help his friend and longtime client Donald Trump explore a Reform Party presidential candidacy in 2000.
FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER
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The popular conception of Prohibition is that speakeasies abounded, gangsters and bootleggers of all sorts flourished, and every American gladly flouted the law.
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I mean, if you listen closely, it's what they refer to as a gangster rap or a conscious rap.
CNN Transcript Oct 12, 2004
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And so the gangsters from Culiacan became world famous kingpins of complex criminal enterprises - many resembling multi-national corporations in structure.
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Gangster films and series are generally the most uninspired, unimaginative and moribund visual art around.
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Thousands of new titles on themes ranging from samurai, golf, yakuza gangsters, fantasy superheroes, sex and social satire are published each year.
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But Lissovsky's biggest problem is to persuade the gangsters who frequent the club to settle their differences elsewhere.
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He falls in with a gangster while at the same time falling for the gangster's moll.
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If it cannot protect them from drugs then it should protect them from illegal drugs and gangsters.
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It is a gangster film with darkened images meant to impart an art-house quality.
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She takes on a roomful of dark-suited gangsters single-handed with only a samurai sword.
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The term gangster or mobster refers to a criminal who is a member of a crime organization, such as a gang.
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The McLean gang member said the gangster had used Customs to clear the way for his own criminal activities.
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Ten years later, Rikidozan was killed by a small-time gangster, with a tanto, in a bar.
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Known as the "order committee", these alpha gangsters were the sole authority because successive Guatemalan governments simply abandoned the facility.
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The gangsters ran into the bar and started shooting it up.
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Critics mercilessly panned this romantic gangster comedy when it first appeared on the big screen, but is it really that bad?
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The gangster gabbed about bribing a congressman and his opium smuggling business, which along with his other revelations could have put him back in prison.
Wild Bill Donovan
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He wants to portray that gangster image, but he is a hard-working player.
Times, Sunday Times
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Joe from Williamsburg says "I don't see" first of all why did you call Hasidic gangsters I never see on the street
The Brooklyn Paper: Full articles
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Elsewhere in the cast, Justin Theroux plays Drew Barrymore's old boyfriend: an Irish gangster with an accent veering wildly from Glasgow to Dublin via Los Angeles.
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The nephew of Anjelica Huston — and grandson of John Huston — made a harrowingly brilliant debut on the Halloween-night episode of HBO's sprawling gangster drama as Richard Harrow, a disfigured sniper who joined forces with fellow World War I veteran Jimmy Darmody (Michael Pitt) in Chicago.
Cheers & Jeers: Boardwalk Empire's Man in the Iron Mask
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He defends himself, goes, "I ` m a gagster, not a gangster.
CNN Transcript Mar 17, 2006
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The crooks range from small-time gangsters to big-time drug traffickers and international terrorists.
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The police are hard on the track of the gangster.
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It helps that most of the supporting roles are played with lip-smacking gusto: Mr. Godley is in colossal form as Lord Evelyn Oakleigh, a Bertie Wooster-type boob who turns out to be one hell of a dancer, and Joel Grey is sweet and charming as Moonface Martin, the dimwitted gangster who prides himself on being Public Enemy Number 13.
Sutton Foster's Got the Zowie
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To be honest, the word gangster is pushing it a bit.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
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The actor gets to play two characters in this outrageous little comedy, a sort of screwball gangster film.
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So it was perhaps inevitable that he should have turned to playing a gangster - a yakuza - in his fourth film.
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I was abused by an uncle and ended up marrying into a family of gangsters.
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Elsewhere he is routinely referred to as a known gangster.
The Sun
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Gangsters represent a warlord society, and gangsterism is the way of life in a failed state.
Times, Sunday Times
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Blood feuds and general gangsterism added to the local crime rate.
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When gangsters murder a young boy's family, he falls under the unlikely protection of a tough, ageing ex-gangster's moll.
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He wants to portray that gangster image, but he is a hard-working player.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is also the fact that cockney gangsters of the sort found here had their cinematic stock crashingly devalued by all those geezer movies a few years ago.
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Suspected gangsters have been shackled by new laws designed to curb hoodlum behaviour.
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My film situation is similar to his - gangster on the run with his moll.
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Chow is best known for his role in the Oscar-winning Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, but he made his name in high-octane Hong Kong gangster fare such as Hard Boiled and A Better Tomorrow.
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Just as all happy families resemble one another, so all gangster family sagas resemble one another.
Times, Sunday Times
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That was the stuff of gangster movies and cowboy films.
ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?: A Life Through the Movies
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It's also a symbolic return of the homoerotic subtext that has been lost in the new Brit gangster film.
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NT Director Nicholas Hytner gets an awesome ensemble performance from his troupe—the sub-plot of wannabe-actor Alan (Daniel Rigby) wanting to marry Pauline (Claire Lams), whom her gangster father (Fred Ridgeway) has promised to the murdered gangster is equally sidesplitting.
Small-Screen Stars Shine on Stage
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In the traditional gendered hierarchy of film genres, crime thrillers, biopics, historical dramas and gangster films are more prestigious than teen film, romantic comedy, contemporary melodrama and broad comedy.
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Just as all happy families resemble one another, so all gangster family sagas resemble one another.
Times, Sunday Times
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The script is hackneyed, riddled with stereotypes and offers nothing that hasn't been seen in every single gangster film ever made.
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To be fair, though, that movie is American Gangster – which looks likely to be one of the films of the year – and not Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, although that's because the only word Jay-Z could find to rhyme with 'emporium' was 'crematorium' rather than his decision being based on any kind of artistic standpoint.
Ridley Scott’s Nottingham: Starring Russell Crowe & Russell Crowe
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In fact, many people believe gangsters and hoodlums are vicious and violent by nature.
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These people provided an abundance of cheap labour for the growing city - porters, factory workers and rickshaw pullers; some even ended up as gangsters and prostitutes.
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This individual has, apparently, a singularly murky gangsterish past which was the subject of a posting on the blog of former Ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray who there gave chapter and verse about the man.
Don't Mess With Us, Mr. Usmanov