Word: mugging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proved entertaining for a half hour, and then we ran into the airport's only trouble spot-the gift shop. Liz, after convincing me not to buy my sister a pink straw cowboy hat, a silly-looking plastic sculpture of a cowboy, or a coffee mug with "Texas Longhorns" stamped on the side, hugged me good-bye and went off to her plane, not to be seen in Austin for days to come...
...That junk on television," Scott I fumed. "Sure, the good guys usually win. But that's not what grabs the audience. It's what the bad guys do. Kids learn how to mug the defenseless. How to use guns and knives. How to get high on alcohol and drugs. That's what they remember...
...know," the friendly but authoritative voice begins, "if there were a popularity contest for politicians, but it was based on accomplishment, not on personality or good looks, you know who would win that?" The familiar mug then appears on the screen. "It would be Gov. King...
...THERE IS ANY FLAW in Peter Sellars's recasting of Orlando it is his tendency towards cryptic, coyly symbolic staging. Why, for instance, is there so much rolling around? Why does Zoroastro mug and wave at the audience incessantly? And why are all those cardboard boxes littering the stage in the last act? No doubt each of these elements has its place in Sellars's masterplan, but too often, his is an aggressively private vision...
Police took several people who witnessed the hold-up in the store to the Cambridge station to look at mug-shots. As of 11:30 p.m. the police had made no arrests and were continuing their search for the three...