Word: mugging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...walls. On his bookshelf, sandwiched between Chinese works on Marx, are two slim English volumes on Business Cycles. The pope wears gray polyester pants and a blue-and-white-checked shirt--short-sleeved and semitransparent so you can see his T shirt. He sips tea from an extra-large mug. Everyone else in the room drinks from a small white one, each stamped with a large red number--144, 78, 33--which gives the room the feel of a lottery. He is 63 years old and tan. It is easy to picture him dispensing gentle ideological wisdom to President Jiang...
Other artifacts crowd display cases throughout the library, with tintypes and leather-backed diaries sharing shelf space with pro-ERA buttons and a mug from the Women's Equity Action League that reads "make policy, not coffee...
...candidates know what city they are hoping to run? City council president Lawrence Bell, whom staff members often refer to as the "President," put out a lovely campaign brochure featuring his smiling mug, happy schoolchildren, a calculator and those picturesque Victorian town houses of, um, San Francisco. Bell, 37, may aspire to be Willie Brown, but so far all he has is the suits. Bell dropped a cool $4,323 of campaign money on clothes from Saks Fifth Avenue, which does not have a store in Baltimore. He has plummeted from gregarious front runner to press-shy third-place trailer...
...tired of all those numbingly respectable Cabinet officers who looked as if they'd all gone to Andover together. And you were sick to death of that wretched dog. You were starting to miss the buccaneering days of the Reagan Administration, during which TIME once devoted several pages to mug shots of all the Reagan officials who'd had ethical or legal charges leveled against them--a layout that looked like the life insurance-company ads congratulating the leading salesmen of the tristate area. Now, after 6 1/2 years of Clinton, you're nostalgic for those Protestant gentlemen...
Harvard officials said they pulled the site offline because it contained sexually related material, including a high school yearbook mug shot of the sister of a rival Web site's founder...