Word: pigged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brought with him a lifelong obsession with competitive play. He was considered the TIME softball team's ace pitcher till the squad opened its ranks to women players. "I hung up my sneakers," says Kennedy, "because when it comes to softball, I'm a real male chauvinist pig. Somehow I cannot see myself hook-sliding into a lovely second baselady...
...Guinea Pig. It was emphatically the wrong time for Kemmler, too. Dr. Alphonse David Rockwell was then advancing the notion that electrocution would be a humane method for executing criminals. Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse were noisily disputing the relative merits of direct and alternating current. Kemmler was a convenient guinea pig, and so became the first man ever to be executed by that new scientific wonder, electricity. Calling his hero-victim Rupert Weber to suit his fictional purposes, Davis takes the reader through the last months of Weber's life-his moods and his memories, fears and dreams...
...interested in everything, from the nap of a rabbit's fur or the extra legs on a mutant pig to the theory of human proportion. His graphic work was a sustained paean to the diversity of the world. There was often an edge of apocalyptic menace in the way he perceived it. He wrote a treatise on proportion, but he was shaken by portents, frightened by monsters and preyed on by nightmares?all of which he described and to some degree exorcised by drawing them. But his curiosity remained insatiable, and it drove him to constant journeying...
...bombers, however, appeared unconnected with any student campaign against the CFIA. In a letter to Boston newspapers shortly after the bombing, a group calling itself "the Proud Eagle Tribe, a group of revolutionary women" claimed responsibility for the act, proclaiming, "The Center figures out ways for Pig Nixon to try to destroy people's wars in Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. . . . This, our tribe's first action, is part of a national fall offensive by tribes of kids all over to attack the enemy everywhere he shows his ugly face...
Among other things, the devil is a sexist pig. Even a cursory look through the literature of demonology discloses that he often negotiates with men but rudely possesses women. The Exorcist is about the possession of a young female, but it has nothing to do with literature. It is a pretentious, tasteless, abominably written, redundant pastiche of superficial theology, comic-book psychology, Grade C movie dialogue and Grade Z scatology. In short, The Exorcist will be a bestseller and almost certainly a drive-in movie...