Word: mugging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...roast beef at Hungry Charlie's (right in the Square) is not much better, but Charlie's apple beer, served in a tall mug, is worth trying...
...given other Moliere plays). It calls, not just for good actors, but for expert farceurs. The cast at the Loeb is very earnest and energetic, but rarely brings the play to life. The two leads, Ralph Martin as Argan and Melissa Mueller as his saucy, scheming maid Toinette, mug and ham it up endlessly, but it just doesn't make us laugh...
...often hinted that the Australian diva has a healthy streak of lunacy herself. But it took a new production of Donizetti's La Fille du Régiment (The Daughter of the Regiment) at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera last week to prove that Sutherland can camp, shriek, mug and stomp about in boots delightfully without missing a gruppetto or smudging a staccato...
William Golding looks like every one's favorite uncle, the kind who pulls silver dollars out of your ear and is al ways just back from Tashkent. It oc curs to the reader, as he inspects Golding's wise and mischievous mug on the dust jacket, that no one has pulled silver dollars out of his ear for a long time. It used...
Smelling a Rat. After a couple of hours, the still angry judges were rousted out for fingerprinting and mug shots, and that was when the police made a mistake: they called the names of all seven judges who had been at the club. Because only five had actually been arrested, Florida Judge William Frye III, a former policeman, finally smelled a rat. Pressed by the judges, the police admitted that it had all been a put-up job, a "field trip" arranged in cooperation with the college to show the judges the view from the other side of the bench...