Word: normington
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coat, he sets off under the cover of night and abducts a succulent pig (Betty) from a local farm. The porker, however, harbors two secrets. First, it is an unlicensed pig, covertly purchased by Swaby and his two friends, the accountant Allardyee (Richard Griffiths) and the barrister Lockwood (John Normington) and planned as the guest of honor at a fete to celebrate the royal wedding. Secondly, the pig is subject to frequent and liquid bowel movements, especially when brought into a strange environment like the Chilver's living room...
...life. They are like three hidcous pagan idols Elliot's Swaby is a power-hungry manifestation of Blind Ambition, who gleefully leaps at every opportunity to torture Gilbert Griffiths' Allardyee is towering Gluttony, who constantly stuffs his face with chocolates, wafers, seal paines and even his beloved Betty And Normington's Lockwood is personified Snobbery, who looks and acts exactly like John Gielgud. At all times, these societal demi-gods keep their aristocratic buttocks firmly over the lid of Gilbert's private hell...
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