Word: muggings
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...first people you'll hate are the walking Harvard decals, the people whose first $100 is spent on a Harvard banner, a Harvard mug, a red-and-white Harvard T-shirt, a white-and-red T-shirt, Harvard blotters, Harvard neckties, Harvard scarves, and red and white underwear that glows "Veritas" in the dark with the words to ten obscene Harvard band songs cross-stitched in the inseam. I once sublet an apartment from a recent Harvard alumnus who actually had the only complete set of Harvard cocktail glasses I've ever seen outside the Coop...
...left we have Horner's lodging, assumed to be on the second story since it is reached by a stairwell opening up through the stage floor. It is a lived-in space, decked out with a fireplace on whose mantle sit an hourglass, an astrolabe and a drinking-mug. There are a chandelier, a terrestrial globe on a stand, a mirror, antlers on the wall, and, most appropriately, a folding screen depicting the nude mythological Leda about to be impregnated by Zeus-as-swan. Doors lead offstage to other rooms, including the hyperactive bedroom...
...after a trial ended in a hung jury. Nonetheless, the state tenaciously prosecuted him three times for the attempted rape; the third time, his conviction survived appeals. It was that verdict that fell last week after the prosecutor's office learned that the victim had picked out a mug shot of her assailant at a time when no mug shot of Whitmore was in police files...
Sargeant Daniel Ahern said yesterday that the professor viewed mug shots at police headquarters but was unable to identify his assailant. The professor claimed, however, that he could make positive identification of the robber if he saw the robber again, Ahern said...
...squat frame, the moonface, the rubbery lips that were ever consuming a $1 cigar, the metallic voice that landed like a tattoo of blows-Edward G. Robinson seemed not at all constructed for Hollywood's romantic era or for surviving his early typecasting as super-mug. Yet Robinson packed such intense integrity into every role, focused his steely talent with such skill, aged with such grace, that when he died of cancer last week at 79, he truly deserved the accolades strewn upon his memory...