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...often have we heard women refuse to go out, saying "All I'll do is eat," or, "I'm never going there again. I made a complete pig of myself...
...with Castro's guerrillas in the mountains a generation ago. He flicks on a cheap cigarette lighter and, in its feeble glow, takes stock of his home in Santiago de Cuba, the officially designated "Hero City" of the revolution: no running water, paint peeling off the walls, a wild pig snuffling around the main corridor. "I need a candle to look for hope here...
...Dear Beth, my girlfriend is a militant feminist. Every time I try to do something romantic she accuses me of being a chauvinistic pig who indulges in archaic ritualized affection that dominates and demeans women. Is there a non-symbolic way for me to give her flowers...
...Union gave out "Chinese placemats" to every student. Actually, these placemats were the tacky, Chinese restaurant variety, the type of which feature a dozen or so animals and tell you that you were born in the "Year of the Pig." Why were these placemats used? Did Ching-Hua Garden and the Hong Kong have an overstock? Other than providing a quick laugh for resturant goers, there is no connection between these mass-produced, simplistic placemats and the Chinese people...
...result is a compressed baby boom -- one that interrupts charts of Rumania's age groups less like the metaphorical pig in a python of the U.S. baby boom but rather more like a giraffe in a python. In 1972 Rumania had twice as many children in kindergarten as the year before. In 1989 twice as many 22-year-olds were flooding into the labor force. But Ceausescu was unable to create jobs in the late 1980s as rapidly as mothers created babies in the late 1960s. Revolutions are carried on the backs of the young, and the sudden increase...