Word: mugging
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...difficult to identify with so it now seems more appropriate to laugh at them rather than with them. But despite these changes in attitude, Present Laughter is still an effective comedy because Coward created his characters with performance in mind. His parts provide a rare opportunity for actors to mug and posture shamelessly...
Crime fighters are not the only people using thumbprints, mug shots, computer lists and handwriting analysis these days. The Educational Testing Service (ETS), which administers the LSAT's, MCAT's and similar tests, now uses these techniques to catch cheaters...
...will join historical memorabilia like Babe Ruth's bat and Eli Whitney's cotton gin on display at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. "It's a great museum with its little cars and trains," observed the champ, who took time out in the capital to mug with a statue of Washington. "My gloves may be more popular," Ali added, referring to the mitts that in 1974 beat George Foreman in Zaire, "but the cotton gin did more for mankind. I'm a man; I'm not no cotton...
William Menzel, a dental lab-technician instructor, began making his decision back in Albany, N.Y., after he realized that "if you said hi to people on the streets, they thought you were going to mug them." He loaded up his wife and four children and headed for Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where, he says gratefully, "my wife can walk the dog at 2 a.m. without fear, and the kids haven't been mugged on the way to school or had their lunches taken away from them...
When J. Edgar Hoover stared at public-enemy posters, each mug shot was really a mirror...