Word: pigged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more fieldwork. The team is returning to Ethiopia next month, to the site, hoping to find parts of other skeletons and uncover more clues about the Ethiopian environment of 4.4 million years ago. Says White: "We're going to crawl on our hands and knees, looking for every giraffe, pig, bird, rodent, seed and any other fossil we can find." Humanity has just added half a million years to its heritage; perhaps the next expedition will give scientists a better idea of how much further back our line of ancestors goes...
Leslie Megahey's The Advocate (originally The Hour of the Pig) is an acid British satire of legal and moral hypocrisy, a tart black comedy about the black-plague years in the 14th century -- and the 20th. The film was cited for undue boisterousness in a (really quite mild) sex scene...
...companies and other cable concerns. And even if no one else comes along, Diller can console himself with the $100 million or so that he stands to make by selling his QVC holdings to Comcast. But that is not likely to calm a restless Diller. "Barry's not a pig," says his close friend Diane Von Furstenberg. "The money is a consequence, but not his first goal. Barry has always fulfilled his dreams...
...University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Lighter has launched the first of a planned three-volume Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang ($50), 1,080 pages teeming with more than 20,000 entries and etymologies, along with an illuminating survey. Volume I runs from a (as in a pig's a) through g (as in gytch, v., to steal); the second installment is due in 1996, the third in 1997 (although this sort of timetable tends to be iffy...
...part, Rudenstine has sought to suggestthat Green's departure was prompted by theprovost's desire to assume the new John Leverettprofessorship, a position designed to encourageinter-Faculty teaching and cooperation. But no oneever really believed the president. AroundHarvard, a Leverett professorship was not unlike aflying pig; no one had ever heard of such a thing...