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...jokes. Jerry talked about elderly residents of Florida who drive with their faces at the level of the dashboard radio, lights blinking an "eventual left turn" signal and car moving at 10 m.p.h. so they can relish every moment of the trip. He also talked about the type of pig that produces the pepper-filled luncheon meat on display at your neighborhood supermarket...

Author: By Matthew H. Joseph, | Title: OBSERVER | 2/26/1987 | See Source »

...independent shorts are also worthwhile, but it takes the big-bucks of advertising to give the Men and Women of Clay a chance to fly. The program whizzes through the ads to the best thing ever shown on MTV, John Fogerty's "Vanz Kant Danz" video, featuring a snivelling pig in a transformation sequence that is equalled only by the final and best short, "The Great Cognito," in which a nightclub impersonator's head actually becomes an entire ware movie. Shrapnel and everything...

Author: By Peter D. Sagal, | Title: On Film | 2/20/1987 | See Source »

come back as a pig; if your greatest desire...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: SCRUTINY | 2/19/1987 | See Source »

...pinch. The twin guitars here are turned up so loud that, even though the chords are relatively straightforward, a whole host of wonderfully accidental noises are created. Also featured are Squirrelbait's homey and near illiterate lyrics, culminating in the heartfelt chorus; "I don't need no pig stomping on my buzz...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: You Want This Badly | 2/19/1987 | See Source »

Back in 1958 I witnessed the expulsion of Boris Pasternak from the Writers' ( Union. Some even demanded that he be thrown out of the country. They called him a "pig rooting in our Soviet garden." Today Historian Dmitri Likhachev in a Literaturnaya Gazeta article unequivocally demands that Doctor Zhivago be published. Today our literary journals are preparing important books for publication: Vladimir Dudintsev writing about Stalin's suppression of genetics; Anatoli Pristavkin on the forced resettlement of ethnic Chechens from the Caucasus; Anatoli Rybakov on the assassination of Sergei Kirov. All these subjects were banned in the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Poet's View of Glasnost | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

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