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Word: pigging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wallis Simpson and her husband, who abdicated the throne of England in 1936 and was obliged to spend the war years as governor of the Bahamas on account of his thinly veiled Nazi sympathies. Nevertheless, this pair of calcified drones, who wrote to each other in baby talk ("Eanum Pig" was his code for her) but never said a memorable thing to anyone else -- except for the Duchess's mot, refuted by her own person, that one cannot be "too rich or too thin" -- are still imagined, especially by elderly Americans, to be a modern version of Tristan and Isolde...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Of Vincent and Eanum Pig | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

...throughout the world as Bro, is a Benedictine priest with 14 honorary degrees, a 43-line entry in Who's Who and entree to Fidel and the Pope. One of Jack's ex-wives, Leah Kaye, is a left-wing lawyer who defends brutish killers as victims of the pig establishment and has a mouth like a Kalashnikov on full automatic. Recalls Broderick: "Bed was where she held forth on genocide and Yanqui imperialism and racism and political prisoners and Amerika with a k, each topic an aphrodisiac in itself. There was seldom any postcoital tristesse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Generation of Vipers THE RED WHITE AND BLUE | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...music, aside from fellow Italians like Respighi, was almost nil. The famous RCA recordings of the Beethoven symphonies now sound febrile and coarse. Even the conductor's notorious temper and torrents of epithets, which once seemed so romantically apposite -- no musician had really lived until Toscanini called him Porco! (pig) -- come off today as operatic posturing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Porco & Poses UNDERSTANDING TOSCANINI | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...jokes. Jerry talked about elderly residents of Florida who drive with their faces at the level of the dashboard radio, lights blinking an "eventual left turn" signal and car moving at 10 m.p.h. so they can relish every moment of the trip. He also talked about the type of pig that produces the pepper-filled luncheon meat on display at your neighborhood supermarket...

Author: By Matthew H. Joseph, | Title: OBSERVER | 2/26/1987 | See Source »

...independent shorts are also worthwhile, but it takes the big-bucks of advertising to give the Men and Women of Clay a chance to fly. The program whizzes through the ads to the best thing ever shown on MTV, John Fogerty's "Vanz Kant Danz" video, featuring a snivelling pig in a transformation sequence that is equalled only by the final and best short, "The Great Cognito," in which a nightclub impersonator's head actually becomes an entire ware movie. Shrapnel and everything...

Author: By Peter D. Sagal, | Title: On Film | 2/20/1987 | See Source »

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