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...produce a deadlock that lasts for weeks, while attempts to pass a bill before agreement is reached can lead to brawls and boycotts. Laws that are passed are often worded ambiguously. Members, meanwhile, find themselves devoting much of their time to constituents' requests, no matter how outlandish. A hog-farm operator, for example, kept after his representative for months to find him a hotel that would deliver him its leftover food, gratis, for his swine. The politician finally delivered and thus earned the unshakable support of the breeder...
Richard III is called a "hellhound," an "elvish-mark'd, abortive, rooting hog," "a bottled spider" and a "poisonous bunch-back'd toad...
...presents a roster of hilariously varied characters. One minute he is Little Richard Simmons, finding just the right comic fusion-effeminate yet macho-of the rock-'n'-roll screamer and the Liberace of aerobics ("Good golly, Miss Molly, you look like a hog!"). The next he is Velvet Jones, a pomaded pimp, with teeth like sheathed knives, huckstering his how-to books for young ladies, I Wanna Be a Ho and Exercises of Love. Now he is Tyrone Green, an illiterate convict lionized by radical chic for his vengeful poetry ("Cill My Lanlord") and moving with the mean...
...Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation...
...religionists, one of whom was Sanders' 26-year-old son, refused to eat pork or drink water. Sanders had decorated the back of the house on Shannon with pink half moons and big yellow stars. On a tree in the yard hung a sign: WANTED FOR MURDER. MR. HOG. KNOWN ALIASES: PORK, SWINE, HOG...