Word: pigging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kept trying: "I am a guinea pig with a hell of a palate." He was finally satisfied in 1980. Mintz keeps his formula a secret but admits to contemplating odd flavors like mango and even pineapple-yam. Says he: "My wife Rachel and I live and breathe Tofutti...
...tries, typically, to cope with an eccentric dentist who wears a Superman suit, or to record a hit country tune in Nashville, or to interview an underwater hockey team, the jokes sometimes seem forced. Even on TV, though, the zingers can zing: having decided, unaccountably, to interview a pig, she starts off, "Hi, I think I used to date your brother...
From its beginnings in the 18th century when a group of undergraduates met for dinner over a roasted pig and decided to form a social fraternity, the Porcellian Club had never elected a Black member. But after 192 years, that tradition changed last fall...
...Pontiff's visit. At Mount Hagen, from an altar covered with a thatched roof and lavishly decorated with hibiscus, orchids, bougainvillea and battle shields, the Pope made a plea for permanent peace to the crowd of almost 130,000. Then he gave Communion to warriors who glistened with pig fat and wore head dresses of black hawk feathers and crimson and golden plumes from the bird of paradise...
Behind his back, some of his entourage called him "the candidate." There was the somber and fastidious President of France, barnstorming across the U.S. last week like a practiced old pol. He rapped about jazz in the South, cradled a squealing suckling pig in the Midwest, shook hands with demonstrators in the West, and pressed Legion of Honor medals on every mayor he met. He barely speaks a word of English, but it hardly mattered. When François Mitterrand gushed, "J'aime le peuple Americain," everybody got the message...