Word: mugging
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SMASHING TIME. En route to fame and fortune in swinging London, Rita Tushingham and Lynn Redgrave mug their way through mud, sprayed paint and hurled pies amid a mod bedlam that is more goofy than spoofy...
...Miami police department now videotapes moving, talking mug shots of every suspect arrested. "It takes from 30 to 40 seconds," explains Officer Lloyd Hicks, who runs the project, "and it's like a walking wanted card. Officers checking the ident tapes later really get the feeling that they know the man they're after." During a race riot outside a high school in the Chicago suburb of May wood, Sheriff Joseph Woods had his tape crew record the entire scene. When police brutality was later charged, Woods simply hauled out his tapes and proved his deputies innocent...
Slurping liquor from a coffee mug, Mailer faced an audience of 600, most of them students, who had kicked in $1,900 for a bail fund against Saturday's capers. "I don't want to grandstand unduly," he said, grandly but barely standing...
...make sales. It's doubtful that other groups will be allowed the right to go from door to door, but an increasingly self-conscious HSA has done something to reduce the irritation its salesmen caused by eliminating some of the agencies. You can't buy a non-breakable beer mug from them anymore...
...boys challenges him to a boxing match. The boy loses, gaining Poitier the final measure of respect. By the time that Poitier receives a job offer from a Midlands factory, the once hostile class has become a bunch of friendly natives who present him with a pewter mug-to "Sir," with love. In grateful tears, Poitier rips up the letter from the factory and prepares for a lifetime of turning hippies and chippies into grownups...