Every Celtic supporter's dread materialised like a mugger out of a doorway in a Scottish Cup semi-final which would leave them feeling violated almost beyond recovery.
The speeches seemed an afterthought to the hugger-mugger of bribing sufficient numbers of people to cast their votes.
They are delivered with panache by a hardworking cast that makes each scene entertaining but cannot turn a hugger-mugger of incident into something more substantial.
Communal, spatially particular parish rights of burial were replaced by absolute, abstract property rights, and the hugger-mugger of the old churchyard was replaced by the possibility of the individuation of the dead person, by means of the memorial and the deployment of the clearly demarcated burial site.
That the course of the wall followed the boundaries of Berlin's administrative districts, as defined in the 1920s, allowed for an arbitrary imposition of geopolitics on the hugger-mugger of urban life: families were divided; city centre stations that connected severed districts became redundant.
The additional hugger-mugger of her comings and goings on errands during which she briefly vanishes, and of the unsuburbanized rural area beyond the other end of the sinister railroad tunnel, an area full of barking dogs and barn ruins and unsavory rumors, is lifted into clarification but held there for only a moment, before dropping back into the other obscurities of childhood and nostalgia.
And Mr. Giuliani recalls the days when, as he remembers them, a New Yorker couldn't walk up Third Avenue without being on the lookout for muggers, of the blocks of dirty book stores and prostitutes, of public urination and pot-smoking.
And yet, despite all of this the end result is still an anarchic hugger-mugger of concrete, brick, steel and glass, typified by cul-de-sacs full of double-parked cars, and arterial roads clotted with traffic jams.
Give it to the mugger instead of your cellphone you are currently using.
It's in the little hugger-mugger group of drinking glasses and the package of unopened letters on the floor; it is in the emblematic masks and the queer wooden structures upon which everything depends.
