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...work," says Ron. "I fixed it and traded it with a guy for a pig. Well, the pig had eight piglets, and I traded five of them for three VW bugs, none of which ran. I overhauled one of them to get it going; cost me $40. The next litter I traded five more piglets for another VW. We named the pig Tubby Typewriter after the typewriter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Mexico: A Family Lives in Its Own World | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

...very mellow pig," says Nora, who makes wild-chokecherry wine and bakes all her breads and biscuits with homegrown wheat and rye. "When she had her first litter, we took a bottle of wine and some glasses into the pig house to help her through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Mexico: A Family Lives in Its Own World | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

Jones does not simply drop names; he hurls editions of Who's Who. He is a compendium of tittle-tattle, from what the ladies found so impressive about Porfirio Rubirosa to what turned Tallulah on. Scenes of East Side literary salons contrast to the human litter of West 42 Street, innocence flirts with cynicism, and beauty is played off against corruption. Where invention beckons or libel laws counsel, there are fictional characters. Jones himself appears to be a perverse projection of a Capote who might have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: And Now, the Fictional Non-Novel ANSWERED PRAYERS | 9/7/1987 | See Source »

...sure that anything could save Arena football. However, being a person with many ideals, maybe Arena football would be a little better if the announcers were a litter more interesting, or if they bothered to get the rules down...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Arena Football: Players in Search of a | 7/10/1987 | See Source »

...Director of the Institute of Politics (IOP) is sitting behind his desk on a rainy July day, surrounded by boxes that litter his freshly vacuumed office floor. A small bust of Abraham Lincoln and a picture of Dick, as his friends call him, at the Great Wall of China stand out amongst the debris. Worn books on politics such as "All the President's Men," "The Final Days," "The Brethren," and works by Garry Wills and William Safire stare out from the wall behind...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: Thornburgh Brings IOP His Political Experience and New Electoral Hopes | 7/7/1987 | See Source »

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