Word: mugging
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...discovered rather than trained, he had ten years of experience behind him by the time he made Breathless. Most of it he acquired at the Conservatoire, the French equivalent of Britain's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Bebel got experience of all kinds there. "In spite of my mug, it would be stupid to deny that I've always had a certain success with girls," he says...
...magic emanates not from the song alone, but the man, whose every movement is classic, whose Western drawl is definitive, who can mug and joke, yodel and moan, tell a tall tale ("I don't believe in rebearsin' for recordings: and I never listened to them afterwards") so well that he has to explain that it was a slight fib after...
...watch the races." But the U.S. is hardly begging for Cup defenders. Last week a spanking new U.S. twelve went down the ways; a second new twelve was launched the week before, and three veteran boats were fitting out to compete for the honor of defending the "auld mug...
Another wrote: "I was confined in a small cell which has light. Since there were no facilities for passing urine one was often forced to use the mug which is used for drinking tea. Electic wires were tied on my second fingers of both hands. My eyes were now covered. Then I was given electric shocks. When I cried without giving information they untied me and the two fingers next to the thumb were tied. I was once more given shocks. Even then there was no information I could give...One detective said if I reported what was done...
...dope pusher, a willing killer for syndicate chiefs, now turned stool pigeon. Yet last week he found U.S. Senators treating him with patronizing respect. John McClellan addressed him warmly as "Joe," inquired if he wasn't tired from testifying, quickly adjourned the hearings until this week when the mug from the Mafia said he was indeed weary. In fact, Valachi's act was introduced-with some pride-by none other than Bobby Kennedy, Attorney General of the U.S. Boasted Bobby: "For the first time an insider, a knowledgeable member of the racketeering hierarchy, has broken the underworld...