Word: pigged
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...personalities and backgrounds are a study in contrasts. Smith, an amateur actor and the divorced father of four, has played supporting roles in Pittsburgh productions of such dramas as A Doll's House and Death of a Salesman. He is also a writer who saw his play, The Fetal Pig, a comedy about a mid-life crisis, staged in Philadelphia in 1987. ''I like to put on football games and write,'' says Smith, who holds an M.B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh and is fond of quoting Chaucer in Middle English. ''I find it a good release.'' Malone...
...even possible." When she discovered that her white neighbors' request for a water hookup had been approved in 1999, she began agitating for equal rights - talking to other black neighbors, attending city council meetings and lobbying government officials. Then one morning, she woke up to find a severed pig's head in her driveway. "It was very upsetting," she says. "I was very scared." She doesn't know what the pig's head was supposed to mean or who put it there, but is convinced that the act was racially motivated...
...Orient, contains soy sauce and chili peppers. Proprietor Loh Lik Peng, who also owns the New Majestic boutique hotel next door, says that the bar's menu was intended to offer "a more substantial dim sum that can be paired with alcohol." And the biggest seller? Crispy pig intestines...
...first thing I noticed was that she was ripped up like a pig in the market," her entrails "flung in a heap about her neck." Thus the account in London's Star newspaper of the policeman who found the body of Catherine Eddowes, a prostitute murdered in the autumn of 1888 by the serial killer the media dubbed "Jack the Ripper." But if the Ripper's notoriety was fueled by a fiercely competitive media market with newspapers trying to outdo one another in relaying gory details of the crimes, unearthing clues, floating theories and taunting the police, his killing spree...
...Hunting jackets ruined my waking hours. Hillary Clinton’s pantsuits made me shout expletives at the television in the Kirkland gym. I have tried to empower Harvard women by stressing to them, over and over, how it is possible to look cute while studying, and how dirty pig-tails and light wash jeans are not the answer to any problem. Many a night, I have felt disappointed in my quest, especially after long days at Lamont, where I was awash with Harvard sweatshirts and conversations about problem sets. But as I was walking down the street the other...