Word: hogs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...plans received mixed reviews. Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower said farmers need "a long-term program that restricts production and raises commodity prices." Herbert Allen, a Monmouth, Ill., hog farmer, said the programs showed that "the President is dedicated to help us." But Wade Carson, 44, a Southern Illinois grain farmer, spoke for many when he said, "Even with PIK and the other programs, some of us aren't going to make...
...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...