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...reading and writing." Instead there is a busy round of "dusting, sweeping, sewing, mending" plus spiritual duties, beginning at 4:45 a.m. Ursula is soon displaying what can only be called a lack of Christian charity and humility. Her priest-confessor "has little blue eyes like an intelligent pig. " Her choir neighbor has a rasping voice that "bores like a drill." The nun's "starched headgear not only gives one a headache but-makes it difficult to hear." And fasting "makes one feel so dreadful...
...might expect, Harvard means a variety of things to people, "an island of light" to President Pusey where he first came into contact with the incredible, if slightly pretentious erudition of ... Harvard undergraduates. To Robert Cutler it is the moment when Professor Copeland looked at the coral pig on his watch chain and said, "Is that the emblem of your sublime little club...
Bourvil, an unbacked Paris hackie, supports himself by odd jobs, including meat-running. A stupid and unimaginative fellow, he enlists the help of Gabin in transporting a freshly slaughtered pig through an obstacle course lined with gendarmes, prostitutes, Nazi soldiers, informers and other keen-nosed dogs. Only the Gallic touch could make such a dangerous journey seem so funny and so sad at the same time. The mishaps that befall the pair have a wonderfully impromptu quality, as if Director Claude Autant-Lara, occasionally glancing at the story (by Marcel Ayme) from which the movie is loosely taken, made...
...famous artist mistaken by his dull-witted companion for a house painter, the meat is an abstraction, a philosophical means of testing the cowardice of his countrymen and the wits of his enemies. After slipping their burden past one more peril, Gabin roars with immense self-appreciation: "This pig's making a genius out of me!" He unsuccessfully tries to persuade Bourvil to hijack their load and be a black-marketeer himself, instead of a mere hauler. Says Gabin: "Then you will be forced to become a boss. See where dishonesty can lead?" Gabin continues to enjoy his larks...
...reached its peak in the 6th and 5th centuries B.C. when painters achieved such individuality of style that their work, though usually unsigned, is identifiable today. The painters are usually called by an object they may have painted well, like the Pig Painter, or after a city where one of their better works may be located, like the Berlin Painter, who did the red-figure amphora (opposite). But by the beginning of the 3rd century B.C., the art that had so deftly wedded form, decoration and utility died out and has never since been revived...