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In an article on overacting, Independent critic Leigh Singer wrote: "Unlike theatre's declamatory projecting to the back row, a 'stagey' performance onscreen isn't a compliment... ultimately, it really is a matter of personal taste."
Mugging or mugger may refer to: Mugger crocodile, a species native to India, Iran, Nepal, and Pakistan; Muggers, a 2000 Australian movie directed by Dean Murphy;
Sign on an Amsterdam street warning of pickpockets. Street crime is a loose term for any criminal offense in a public place.According to London's Metropolitan Police Force, "Robbery, often called 'mugging', and thefts from victims in the street where their property is snatched and the victim is not assaulted are also considered 'street crime'."
A knife-wielding menace nicknamed the “Haggler After Midnight” is on the loose after mugging a dozen people in Brooklyn and Queens — and bizarrely negotiating over what to steal, cops said.
People smuggling (also called human smuggling), under U.S. law, is "the facilitation, transportation, attempted transportation or illegal entry of a person or persons across an international border, in violation of one or more countries' laws, either clandestinely or through deception, such as the use of fraudulent documents".
Highway robbery or mugging takes place outside or in a public place such as a sidewalk, street, or parking lot. Carjacking is the act of stealing a car from a victim by force. Extortion is the threat to do something illegal, or the offer to not do something illegal, in the event that goods are not given, primarily using words instead of actions.
Donald Trump's long-held claim that he stopped a brutal assault in midtown Manhattan more than a quarter-century ago is bogus, the event’s only known witness told the Daily News.
Garrotting was a term used for robberies in which the victim was strangled to incapacitate them but came to be used as a catch-all term for what is described today as a mugging. Despite a general fall in crime following the 1829 establishment of the Metropolitan Police, the press reported in 1856 that garrotting was on the rise.