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gangster

[gang-ster] / ˈgæŋ stər /


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Vincent Pastore, best known for playing gangster informant Salvatore “Big Pussy” Bonpensiero on HBO’s “The Sopranos,” has died.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 1, 2026

Soon JJ was spending time with Michael - watching gangster films, playing video games and listening to his stories.

From BBC Jul. 10, 2026

“He was a cinephile without us, at the time, even knowing what that term meant. He would bring back really good films. He loved the gangster genre,” Vargas says.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 30, 2026

Many of the movies of the era picked up on this theme and offered people solace by turning the tables—especially the new genre of gangster movies.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 21, 2026

The following year, it even became home to the nation’s most notorious gangster, Al Capone.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

Mr. Starritt packs a lot into his sweeping novel—from underwater turbines to hydrogen-powered rockets, financial meltdowns to renewable-energy startups, Japanese gangsters to Italian cuisine.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

People are carefully trying to connect the dots, trying to point to places within Dylan’s work where he’s mentioned gangsters or specific moments in American history.

From Salon May 12, 2026

In clipped, fast-moving scenes, Mr. Sayles shifts between the boardroom and the assembly line, and radiates out to develop the roles of attendant characters, from journalists to labor activists to gangsters and rumrunners.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 29, 2026

Mueenuddin, whose gift for satire shines whether he’s describing society matrons or gangsters, never loses sight of his theme: How do any of us ever manage to justify our treatment of the underserved?

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 31, 2025

She was not one of the reformers who had campaigned for Prohibition, but she believed in the rule of law, and the rise of the gangsters appalled her.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield




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