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Word: pigged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Asked outside the courtroom what he did yell, Laub said with a smile, "Death to the fascist pig...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: Protester Fined For HLS Disruption | 9/11/1988 | See Source »

...head-on car crash lay speechless in a Los Angeles hospital. On the 21st day of silence, the neurosurgeon tried a desperate measure: "How are you feeling today, Bugs Bunny?" he asked. The reply was immediate: "Eh, just fine, Doc. How're you?" A question to Porky Pig ) elicited a similar response: "Just f-fine, th-th-thanks!" In his otherwise light-headed autobiography, Mel Blanc recalls, "It was as though Bugs and Porky, into whom I had breathed life three decades earlier, were returning the favor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Toontownie That's Not All Folks! | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

...more of the smart same. Young MacPee-wee has a farm that is a sort of summer camp -- high camp -- for animals. In the barn, the sheep and cow sleep in beds. For breakfast the horse flaps pancakes, and Pee-wee's talking-pig pal devours them. At the hint of a hurricane, Pee-wee leads his brood into the storm cellar ("Women and chickens first!") and dresses them in party hats. Because there are no other humans on the farm and few children nearby, Pee-wee is his own role model, his only playmate, and the film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Prince of Prepuberty Grows Up BIG TOP PEE-WEE | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

...market, children learn, is where one goes to buy a fat pig. Grownups call it pork belly, but rarely come home with the bacon. Instead, they hold a slip of computer-generated paper that represents a bet on the future price of the commodity. Not having to handle the meat makes it much easier for traders. They have time to think up creative ways of profitably shuffling their paper ^ or, as the case is today, manipulating numbers on a computer. The game can now be as bewildering as three-dimensional chess played internationally at the speed of light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Paper Chase MARKETS | 7/25/1988 | See Source »

Bicycle Messenger Christopher Stalvey, 19, reached Attorney General Edwin Meese's Justice Department all set to rush in and deliver a package. No way, said guards at the door after taking a look at his T shirt. It read, "Experts Agree! MEESE is a PIG...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speech: The Messenger Was a Medium | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

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