Word: muggings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...illiterate, the movie offers plenty to chew on by itself. Nicolas Gage, a fine young actor who is making a career out of playing louts, here is H.I. McDonough. H.I. is a small-time hood and big-time loser who falls in love with the officer who takes his mug-shots, the stern but delicate Edwina (Holly Hunter). He and Ed are happy in their trailer park until they discover that Ed is barren. As H.I's extensive prison record prevents them from adopting, they have only one option: stealing one of the new Arizona Quints, five identical babies born...
Solution: Install a pamphlet holder on the side of Harvard Hall that contains postcards with images of people standing in front of the statue. The faces on the cards will be cut-out, so visitors can paste into the holes the photograph of their choice--their own mug, or that of a well-known political figure, or Dom Deluise, or even a beloved household...
...BRANSON, Missouri, my Grandpa and his pals used to head down every afternoon to the straightforwardly named Branson Cafe--another bygone champion of the Bottomless Mug. Amidst a clutter of ash trays and never-empty mugs, they'd toss around sly insults, last week's news, and raspy laughs. That place was their entertainment, their escape, and the Bottomless Mug was the basis of their circle...
...Harvard Square, a hive of cigarette-filled psuedo-bistros and bullshit conversation, the mug of coffee is no longer an un-self-conscious staple of a social gathering. Instead, it is the dainty focus of 1980s pretention--tiny china thimbles of eight-dollar espresso, or perhaps Ethiopian Harrar for the poseur with an international social conscience...
...Mug'n' Muffin was the last local refuge of the honest-to-goodness, homey mug of coffee. When each cup has a cash bite, you lose the soothing, forevermore flow of half-mugs that can sit unnoticed...