Word: muggers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Works fine, he reported. Not only do muggers edge away nervously, but Keillor thinks up a lot of good material as he mumbles. Thus the new show: recycled mugger-repellent. What kind of new show? Some comedy, centered more in the present than the nostalgic P.H.C. was, he said a few days before the first broadcast. But mostly "fine, classic American music; music to make people throw babies in the air." Tunes for the old show, which he closed with a teary farewell broadcast in June 1987 (tearier second and third farewells followed, and a fourth is plotted for next...
...residents who have tried to hire her as a maid. Her husband has seen white residents close the elevator door in his face when he tried to board. Evidently they took the well-dressed 38-year-old Grayson, one of the highest- ranking officials in New York, for a mugger. "It makes me sizzle," he says, "because it means that no matter what I accomplish as an individual, I will always be judged by what people see first, my color...
TRUE BELIEVER. The ambiguities are as unsettling as a crack-house mugger in this humdinger about a sleazy attorney who bends the system to wreak justice. But the real drama is in the demonic intensity and haunted eyes of James Woods, a criminally gifted actor who may be too edgy to become a Hollywood star in this era of the Really Cute...
TRUE BELIEVER. The ambiguities are as unsettling as a crack-house mugger in this humdinger about a sleazy attorney who bends the system to wreak justice. But the real drama is in the demonic intensity and haunted eyes of James Woods, a criminally gifted actor who may be too edgy to become a Hollywood star in this era of the Really Cute...
...This area is mugger's island. All there is around here is robbers and muggers and they're still raising everyone's rents," says Carroll. "This used to be the place to shop. Now everyone is scared...