Word: oinking
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...years ago, Truman Capote angered his friends in the Concorde set by serving gossip from their private stock to hoi polloi. Anyone with the price of four issues of Esquire magazine could oink over the deviances of their social betters. Each issue carried a "chapter" of what Capote promised would be his most important work. He called it Answered Prayers and described it as a novel-in-progress about New York and European high society...
...satire and extravagant punnery. From the Hog Wild! store in Boston's Faneuil Hall Market Place to three Hogography gift shops in Arkansas to the Hogs & Kisses emporium in San Francisco, retailers' shelves are packed with greeting cards, books, posters, clothes, games, stuffed toys, jewelry, office accessories (oink-wells), bumper stickers (HAVE YOU HUGGED YOUR PIG TODAY?) and sundry objets d'art celebrating hogritude. Says Charlotte Iwata at Homeworks in Santa Monica, Calif.: "Cats were in for a long time. Then there was a rush for penguins and polar bears. Alligators came and went, thank God. Unicorns...
...increasingly uneasy inside the large corporation. When Warner displayed no interest in his idea for a chain of pizza parlors featuring video games, Bushnell stormed out to start Pizza Time Theatre. There are now 85 outlets in five states, where robots named Chuck E. Cheese, Mister Munch and Madame Oink perform vaudeville acts and tell corny jokes to the smell of pizza and the sounds of roaring video games...
...grows. Any parts picky humans do not want to eat can be fed to cattle. As Horticulturist Jack Kelly of the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agriculture Sciences puts it, "It's like the butcher's pig. Everything's useful but the oink...
...mistake to dismiss the book as a male chauvinist oink--it winds up as just that, I suppose, yet it's such a lovingly reasoned and felt-out explanation of how he does feel...