Word: muggers
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...perspirers; the asthmatic who heaves uncontrollably while others pant prettily; the pool- playing, drag-racing, trash-talking bad girl of a sport that thrives on illusion and politesse. While rivals fairly float through their programs, she's the skater who best bullies gravity. She fights it off like a mugger, stroking the ice hard, pushing it away the same way she brushes off fans who pester her for autographs. So when Harding says her demons are all internal, she is neither psyching herself up nor talking herself down for TV. She is speaking the truth...
...court OKs $4.3 mil award for mugger paralyzed by N.Y.C...
...perils of womanhood that Daniel must now face are humorous if not entirely original; though we expect and are provided with the typical griping about high heels, the treatment he doles out to a would-be mugger is one of the film's better moments. Williams' slap-stick style of switching identities, while more strained, is also funny, and even the over-worked puns (e.g. "I'm my own man now") have their charm...
...Safety Walk's poster may well describe a typical Friday night for the guy who gets around. "Look Both Ways." Get to the bar safely, or you won't have any fun. "Use a Condom." Nuff said. "Call SafetyWalk." You wouldn't want a mugger to spoil a perfectly good evening, would...
...tempting to make excuses for violence. The mugger came from a broken home and was trying to lift himself out of poverty. The wife beater was himself abused as a child. The juvenile murderer was exposed to Motley Crue records and Terminator movies. But do environmental factors wholly account for the seven-year-old child who tortures frogs? The teenager who knifes a teacher? The employee who slaughters workmates with an AK-47? Can society's ills really be responsible for all the savagery that is sweeping America? Or could some people be predisposed to violence by their genes...