Word: hoggish
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...lectured on U.S. civilization and its discontents. He tells everyone who will listen that the end is near. Reports Charlie: "He said the signs were everywhere. In the high prices, the bad tempers, the gut worry. In the stupidity and greed of people, and in the hoggish fatness of them." The country will soon collapse into class war, he assures his son: "When it comes, I'll be the first one they kill. They always kill the smart ones first." He is also the dominant, inescapable presence in The Mosquito Coast...
...Paul Bocuse, who brought to French cooking a new emphasis on freshness and simplicity (TIME, April 9, 1973)-and in 1975 received the Legion of Honor from President Giscard d'Estaing. The orgiastic bouffe-meals that would consume long hours of relentless, if not hoggish stuffing of the gullet-got its just desserts. Then Guérard, a close friend of Bocuse's, carried la nouvelle cuisine further by finding ways to cut the calories while maintaining the highest order of taste. Now, says an admiring Bocuse: "For the first time, cuisine and dieting are no longer contradictions...
...cultural self-consciousness of prewar years was almost gone. U.S. artists were concentrating more on nature, and on themselves. Instead of the sterilized barnyards of "American Scene" art, there were carefully detailed, out-of-the-way beauties. Instead of hoggish politicians and slack-breasted shopgirls, there were powerfully expressionistic symbols of luxury-with the sting left out-such as Josef Scharl's rich, melancholy Babylonia...
Ever since President Lewis H. Brown of Johns-Manville Corp. led the way last spring (TIME, March 21). big U.S. companies have been vying to see which could bring out the most readable financial statement, thereby prove that Big Business is not so hoggish of profits as it has been painted. Last week Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. took its turn. The nation's No. 2 maker of electrical equipment* issued a simple folder breaking down operations for the nine years 1929-1937 into one-syllable categories. Total income was $1.261.313,000. Deducting sums "paid out for materials, supplies, fuels...
...high in the Roman Hills, good-natured carabinieri in soaking wet uniforms last week kept a riotous crowd back from the public fountain. One by one they let villagers and visitors approach. One spout flowed rich red wine, the other white, and it was free for all but those hoggish enough to try to use buckets. It was the annual vintage festival, celebrated in Marino for over a thousand years...