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Word: pigged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Next week the imposing galleries and auditoriums of New York City's Museum of Modern Art will be turned into a barnyard. A stuttering pig, a frazzled black duck, a wily coyote, an amorous skunk, a pussycat with a paunch, a tiny yellow bird and, to be sure, the world's most "wascally wabbit" will invade MOMA for a four-month tribute to the Warner Bros. cartoon shop, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. But that's not all, folks. Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, Wile E. Coyote, Pepe Le Pew, Sylvester J. Pussycat, Tweety Pie, Bugs Bunny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: For Heaven's Sake! Grown Men! | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

...despite the reluctance of the two kids, off to England they go, with visions of greeting the Queen in their head, touristy American clothes on their bodies, and lots of "Pig in a Poke" money in their wallet...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Vacate the Premises | 8/2/1985 | See Source »

...movie features the good old Griswald family, back for another set of exciting adventures. Through an unlikely set of circumstances, they win a two-week trip to Europe on a TV quiz show called "Pig in a Poke." (For some reason, the contestants in the show must dress like pigs; but it is really asses that they must make out of themselves...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Vacate the Premises | 8/2/1985 | See Source »

...would do well, young plebes, to heed the following advice. First, lie a lot on your rooming application. Telling the Freshman Dean's Office that you're mildly messy is inviting big trouble. Since no one describes himself as a certified pig, you have to say that only anemically immaculate roommates are acceptable to be grouped with only mildly piggy roommates. Don't say you are in athletic type if all you do is dance to Jane Fonda. Third, leave your ego at home. If it's not crushed by Joe Einstein it'll be crushed instead by some woman...

Author: By Ji H. Min, | Title: A Bed and a Place to Call Home | 7/16/1985 | See Source »

...have wound up in the '60s, with the strips and wiggles of the Hourloupe cycle, a series of puzzle-like arrangements of such everyday objects as coffeepots and bicycles. But he remained contentious to the end, part magician, part sausage grinder. "Many artists," he said, "begin with the pig and make sausages. I begin with sausages from which I reconstitute a pig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slamming a Door on Tradition: Jean Dubuffet: 1901-1985 | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

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