Word: pigging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Feud as a tale is hardly distinguished. Berger's telling is. His language, rich in prewar idiom, is precise and laconic, the perfect foil to his slapstick plot. At first encounter, the characters appear to have been made of pig bladders, but the deeper their predicaments, the more convincing they become. The romance between Bernice and Ernie, a Hornbeck layabout, has the ring of lowlife truth. Says a sincere Ernie after a night of backseat love and a bottle of Rock 'n' Rye: "I'm sure trying to figure out a way to tell you what...
...spoil the illusion of France. Somebody has found a French cowherd. Actually he is a Puerto Rican waiter, but in beret, smock and scarf, and with rouge on his round cheeks to suggest a history of drinking wine for breakfast, he looks as French as Pierre's pig...
That name historically fixes the meeting around 1130 B.C., on a special occasion called the Night of the Pig, when the truth is to be spoken by all parties regardless of rank and with no fear of the consequences that could make honest talk fatal the rest of the year. What the Pharaoh wants to hear is the life stories of the elder Menenhetet, who has discovered a means of self-propagation by dying during the act of intercourse and transferring himself to his lover's womb. Menenhetet warns: "My story must be long like the length...
...heads toward the dealers on Second and Avenue D. Although he never carries a gun on his shopping expeditions, the Captain has a tough demeanor that commands respect-gritty gray eyes, a diamond glittering in his right ear, and a clean-shaven head looming over a stocky, pig-iron body. He prefers to "score" drugs on Sunday in order to avoid the novice buyers, known in the trade as johns and marks, who are preyed on by "beat artists," pushers who sell low-quality merchandise at premium prices. "The white high school kids from New Jersey and Long Island...
...field action, the Club has lined up sorority parties at Santa Barbara and the University of California at Los Angeles, and its first West Coast "Pig Roast." The ruggers also cited a visit to Disney land as a necessity to their training program...