Word: mugged
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...greatest works of art are inevitably turned into kitsch, their fame exploited to sell the most banal products. Guernica adorns T shirts, the Mona Lisa is woven into welcome mats, Sunflowers brightens up your morning coffee mug. Edward Hopper's Nighthawks has suffered the same fate. Prints of the iconic 1942 painting of a gloomy diner have shown up in several generations of American college dorms - there's even a mouse pad. Has reproduction robbed the image of its morose power and reduced Hopper, one of America's greatest artists, to the ranks of the one-hit wonders...
Remember when a cup of coffee was a commodity, a 50˘ mug of joe that came in three flavors: black, with sugar and with cream? That was before 1985, when Howard Schultz opened his first Seattle coffeehouse--later named Starbucks--and taught caffeine-craving consumers from Birmingham to Bangkok that what they really wanted was a $4 venti extra-hot triple-shot latte, easy on the foam. With 7,500 shops in 34 countries--plus supermarket sales--ringing up revenue north of $4 billion a year, Starbucks has become a global iconic consumer brand, as well as the place millions...
Sipping from a steaming mug of Burdick’s rich hot chocolate while talking about food, love, dreams—such is the commonly-shared vision of an ideal date. Burdick’s pervasiveness in Harvard’s dating scene is contrasted, however, by the uniqueness of its recipe. The chocolate, which is brought in from Walpole, N.H., is “the only one of its kind in the country,” says Manager Julie Harrington. “It has a low sugar content, so it’s not movie theater chocolate?...
...made an intriguing discovery in his travel bag: two CDs and a computer flash disc the size of a cigarette lighter. With a hunch who their catch was--the CIA had given them a heads-up that he might be in the area--the Kurdish officials snapped a digital mug shot of the traveler and e-mailed it to their American intelligence contacts. The confirmation came back quickly: the Kurds had nabbed Hassan Ghul, one of the key al-Qaeda operatives still on the run. "When Washington heard we had him," said a Kurdish official in Baghdad, "they were doing...
With his struck-by-lightning hair, glazed eyes and garish Hawaiian shirt, NICK NOLTE, nabbed for a DUI offense, set the standard by which all future mug shots shall be measured...