Word: pigged
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...however, no one seems to be doing much of anything except hanging out. On Friends--which has entered the Nielsen Top 10 after being moved to the high-profile time period following Seinfeld--a group of indolent twentysomethings seems to have unlimited time for gab and games of Pictionary. Pig Sty, which made its debut in January on the new UPN network, revolves around five mismatched roommates (a rube from Iowa, an Italian mama's boy, a guitar-playing layabout and so on) trying to get along in the same cramped New York City apartment--a task that is especially...
...toys, even that gilded rule is rather flexible. Fashion is a silly thing. It actually matters very little whether chartreuse is indeed the new black or whether your pants have flare. Trying to capture the fashion of the moments can be like trying to catch a greased pig, only more expensive...
...example, is a "serious" problem?). And what about products that do not perform tasks, like automobiles or dishwashers, but are rather made to be ingested, e la orange juice, which is featured in the February 1995 issue of CR? Isn't one person's ambrosia another person's pig swill? "We have a standard of what is good orange juice," says CR spokeswoman Rana Arons. Tasters attempt to quantify attributes such as "sweet" and "astringent." "But you'll never see in Consumer Reports anywhere, 'We like this best, this tastes good.' We never say to our testers 'what tastes best...
...lodgings by night. Hypochondria haunts him, plus a doom that has him in thrall: "A unit is lacking. An omission, a blank, a void that nobody but him knows about, thinks about, that, flagrantly, nobody wants to know or think about. A missing link." As "panicky as a pig in an abbatoir," Vowl awaits his karma...
...pig farmer for 18 years, Somphong got into the business of raising tigers after buying four of them from the Chiang Mai Zoo in 1990. Since then he has bred the females twice a year. He admits that his long-term goal is to persuade Thai authorities to allow him to breed tigers and sell their parts, after they die naturally, to medicine makers. A traditional-medicine specialist from Xian, China, is already seeing patients at the farm, which doubles as a clinic. So far, the Thai authorities are dead set against raising tigers for medical use. ``They hope...