Word: muggings
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...Hector Babenco (Pixote, Kiss of the Spider Woman), Ironweed lurks outside Francis' soul, like a tramp at a suburban window, permitting only dumb speculation on his fertile inner life. His ghosts are white-faced extras; his trek up Calvary becomes one long trudge toward oblivion. The movie provides a mug shot instead...
Then one day he had walked into a restaurant and asked for a glass of water, and the waitress looked at him blankly and said, "We don't serve Negroes here." After the many snubs and insults he had received all his life, something snapped. Jimmy threw a mug of water at the waitress and then ran out, terrified because "I had been ready to commit murder from the hatred I carried in my heart...
Indeed, even freshmen accustomed to slippery conditions were having problems yesterday. Jonathan Roosevelt '91, a Cambridge native, said that he was running through the Square yesterday with a new mug his mother had given him. "I slipped, flipped a somersault, landed on my butt and broke...
...just broken up with my high school boyfriend over the phone--it's an old story. My first thoughts were to consume--shut out the pain with a cigarette, a bar of chocolate, or a hot mug of coffee. I wanted to be reminded of home, of friends, family, security...
...shirt looked like it pre-dated Kennedy, his mouth was jaded, his eyes looked a little mad. But when he smiled proudly at the guru's account of his heroism, his face lit up and he blew gently on the coffee the guru handed to him in a heavy mug...