Word: pigged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...than a short story, was Orwell's favorite among his works; it led directly back to his first, heady days in Barcelona. The abused, overworked animals rebel against the rule of the exploiting farmer, Mr. Jones; but the workers' paradise is soon commandeered and betrayed by a pig who bears more than a fleeting resemblance to Joseph Stalin. His credo: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." Animal Farm was rejected by more than a dozen publishers in England and the U.S. The clear anti-Soviet parody bothered many of them. After...
...signs here point to easy moralism. Benevolent revolutionaries fighting fascism; idealistic rebels among the Sandinistas; U.S.-backed dictator pig Somoza; dreamy-eyed Western Press ready to report injustice and suffering--there's a lot it's hard to argue with. Except there's a catch. True, the filmmakers--led by director Roger Spottiswode--are sympathetic to the Left here, and with good cause. Even by the not-so-high standards of right-wing Latin American dictatorships, the government of Anastasio Somoza was a sorry lot, oozing corruption and brutality. And yet Under Fire is able to transcend a doctrinaire manifesto...
Winthrop won the game, 2-0. This year, the Winthrop squad is well-equipped, with shirts picturing their new pig muscot and reminding Winthrop players to "Score like pigs...
Long before the first proverbial pig was skinned for athletic use. Harvard and Yale had been hoped together in friendly rivalry in baseball crew. But even before sports became the official channel for intramural hatred, the two schools had developed a friendly loathing between them. It is in their institutional roots...
...nothing like a fraternity initiation," says one member. "It's not like we grease up a pig or anything...