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...Republican Party in those days was not entirely speechless either. Connoisseurs of the genre remember the sublimely fogbound organ tones of Illinois' Everett McKinley Dirksen. In his early career, writes Biographer Neil MacNeil, Dirksen "bellowed his speeches in a mongrel mix of grand opera and hog calling." Over the years, he developed a style of infinitely subtle fustian, whose effect can still be remotely approximated by sipping twelve-year-old bourbon, straight, while reading Dickens aloud, in a sort of sepulchral purr. Would he criticize an erring colleague? someone would ask. "I shall invoke upon him every condign imprecation...
...keep the Department of Energy from squawking. The poor would simply drive the freebie cars and waste a lot of gas, but the rich all have several hard-to-park gas guzzlers in the garage already, and can't possibly hog any more fuel...
Mansfield's life was an even more ill-matched jumble than her work. The daughter of a prosperous New Zealand business leader, she had "gone every sort of hog since she was 17," as Virginia Woolf put it. That included a string of lesbian as well as heterosexual affairs, a pregnancy and miscarriage and a bizarre episode in which she married a singer whom she had known for three weeks, then abandoned him on their wedding night. In her first eight years in England she had 29 postal addresses, not counting excursions to Europe. She compartmentalized her life, playing...
...Congressman is a hog!" Henry Adams once wrote of the legislators of the Gilded Age. "You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!" Less dyspeptic observers argue that most legislators are honest and dedicated, but the record of the past few years has not been entirely reassuring: February 1976. Representative Andrew Hinshaw, 56, California" Republican, was sentenced to one to 14 years in jail for soliciting and accepting bribes during his 1972 election campaign. May-September...
Nobody loves a gas hog...