Word: mugging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...over, we can take a deep breath and watch television with an open mind. No longer will a soft-voiced speaker accuse another candidate of egregious crimes while somber music plays in the background. No more will opposing candidates be pictured in black-and-white photographs that look like mug shots. No longer will we have to steel ourselves against advertising lest we react too favorably to words that twist the truth. We're done with that...but only in the political process...
...included a prosthetically enhanced President Clinton breast-feeding animals) or the darts aimed at the ad business. ABC quickly promised to tame the show, and Pepsico decided to limit sponsorship to its less familial, more attitude-seeking brands, and thus was born last week's somewhat safer episode, The Mug Root Beer Dana Carvey Show...
...this was prime time. Pizza Hut, another unit of Pepsi in line for top billing, also got cold feet. But the show drew big ratings, and ABC said it would be reined in a tad. So other Pepsi kin are staying put and, happily, there will be a Mug Root Beer Dana Carvey Show...
...concealed weapon and SUZANNE SOMERS for (gasp!) writing bad checks? George Seminara did. He also knew that charges were dropped against Fonda, then 32; that Pacino, 20, was briefly incarcerated and let go; and that Somers, 24, paid the cash back and wasn't prosecuted. Seminara collects celebrity mug shots. His book on the subject, Mug Shots, will be out in June. "One day I sat down and thought of all the celebrities who had been arrested. I came up with 500 without really trying," he says. After two years of research, he had 50 photos. The insights from such...
Because I was one of the first hundred people to visit the new Loker Commons on Opening Day, I received a free Seattle's Best Coffee mug stuffed with coupons and some gourmet chocolate-covered espresso beans. This unexpected gift made me happy, and I sat at one of the new brushed-metal tables in the coffee shop, beaming as I drank my mocha...