Word: mugged
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...film's most startling and depressing images is a telephoto shot of a suburban street clogged with fast-food joints and retail shops; it could be a mug shot of Anywhere, U.S.A. Clowes said he wanted the theme to "hover in the background: the sense that everything in America is becoming the same." That is the case with most American movies about the young; they are as similar in taste and emotional nourishment as McDonald's is to Burger King. In this arid landscape, the edifice of Ghost World, with all its acute insolence, stands out like the Taj Mahal...
...transaction that I carry out, from buying floss at the drugstore to getting cash from an ATM, that's not videotaped. Last week the city of Tampa, Fla., unveiled 36 cameras in its entertainment district downtown with new software to scan the crowds and compare the recorded faces with mug shots on file. But those cameras are also capturing the mug of the guy stopping by for a drink who told his wife he was working late at the office. It has got so we are all stars of The Truman Show...
...made so many coasters. "Making coasters," in case you haven't heard, is the technical term for what happens when a mistake occurs in the audio CD (or CD-R) creation process. You can't re-record a CD-R, so you might as well rest your coffee mug on it. I bought a CD-R drive for my PC only a month ago, and my coffee table has never been so well protected...
...made so many coasters. "Making coasters," in case you haven't heard, is the technical term for what happens when a mistake occurs in the audio CD (or CD-R) creation process. You can't re-record a CD-R, so you might as well rest your coffee mug on it. I bought a CD-R drive for my PC only a month ago, and my coffee table has never been so well protected...
Maybe I’m the only person in America who’s sick of Timothy McVeigh’s long-chinned mug. It certainly seems that way, now that all the pundits, pontificators and pop philosophers have taken him back into their headline-happy hearts, using his impending exit from this mortal coil as an excuse to bloviate on their favorite topics—the (im)morality of the death penalty, the perils of home-grown government haters, the dangers of terrorism, the inadequacies of the criminal justice system and onward down the list...