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...immediate concern in the first letter was for people's lives--the lives of those arrested. Our present concern is for our own lives, that is, for our freedom to speak out against violence arrayed against us, to speak without having mud thrown at us and facing threats of abandonment from those professing to be allies. (You say, after all, that our equality is "much-deserved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editorial Was Violent | 2/12/1990 | See Source »

Then again, maybe John Madden, the rumpled gent who whoops the game for CBS, is right about mud. Why not haul a few dozen tons of good, dirty dirt into the Superdome, the way they do for those tractor pulls that ESPN broadcasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Super Bowl Field of Dreams | 2/5/1990 | See Source »

...says. Indeed, the historic relationship of man and pig, dating back nearly 2 million years, is complex. Such phrases as pig out, pigheaded and hog fat suggest distaste for an ungainly critter that spends most of its time wallowing in muck. (Pigs have few sweat glands and need mud -- or preferably, clean water -- to protect themselves from heat stroke.) But China's Year of the Pig represents prosperity, and pigs have been linked with deities in many cultures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: This Little Piggy Ate Roast Beef | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

...first half of the performance ended with the Flanders and Swann song "The Hippopotamus," with the audience singing along on the chorus of "Mud, mud, glorious mud...

Author: By Maggie S. Tucker, | Title: Celebrities Stage Benefit To Fund Animal Rights | 12/7/1989 | See Source »

...guess what kind of dealing structure will emerge from this mud wrestling in the '90s? Pessimists think the world contemporary art market, just like the communications industry, could implode into six or seven megadealers, each with an international corporate base formed by gobbling up aging or lesser competitors. The middle rank of dealers will have been squeezed out by the raids on their artists and stock, and at the bottom of the heap a litter of small galleries, treated as seedbeds by those on top, will be kept to service the impression of healthy diversity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sold! The Art Market: Goes Crazy | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

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