Word: pigged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...love poems, erotic cartoons-and heart-wrenching returns to his wife and daughter in Mississippi. (Faulkner and Wife Estelle remained married from 1929 until his death 33 years later.) "The South ... was part of the rhythm of his life," says Meta. "He was really at his happiest raccoon or pig hunting with his cronies, the town blacksmith or the drugstore clerk...
...movie producer who had promised her a part. Once she gets over the shock of Kong's first spectacular pickup, she treats him like all the apelike movie moguls she has had to fend off. She tries helplessness ("I can't stand heights"), anger ("You goddam chauvinist pig ape"), some impromptu analysis after striking out at her captor ("It's a sign of insecurity, like when you knock over trees"), even guileful seduction ("I'm a Libra, what are you?"). Eventually she and Kong actually begin to build a ... well, a relationship, something that was never...
...want to be a plant," drones a glassy-eyed Mary Hartman from the Fernwood Receiving Hospital's mental ward. Who could blame her? As a pig-tailed Fernwood housewife on television's most talked-about series last season, Mary's doorstep had been darkened by adultery, impotence, venereal disease and an ax murderer, not to mention waxy buildup on her kitchen floor. No wonder Mary went bonkers on the show's closing episode. So what is next for poor Mary and her loopy friends in the new season that premiered last week?* It does not sound...
...explained that "a pig in a poke" is a 16th century expression meaning an unknown quantity...
Lynn, who was also in Boston to speak at a Republican fund-raiser and to talk about the administration's programs with newspaper editors in Boston, said that "the voters face a decision between the president--an honest man with very specific programs--and Carter, a pig in a poke...