Word: pigging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rabbit Run on the island of St. Thomas? Bech is lured by Su-perbooks, a subsidiary of the Superoil Corp., to autograph 28,500 sheets, at $1.50 each (Updike was paid a bit more), to be bound in pigskin into a special limited edition of his novella Brother Pig. The assignment carries with it an all-expenses-paid two-week working holiday in the Caribbean with the companion of Bech's choice, who will pull each sheet from under his busy pen. Bech brings along Norma, the reliable mistress whom he will never marry; the two of them have...
When the ghosts take a whirling tour through the house, they include a pit stop in the children's suite to paint on the wall a picture of a pig and the slogan "Dishonor Thy Father." Papa Montelli of course refuses to believe the innocent cries that "brushes" did it and he start to belt the kids. Mom breaks in so he starts to break her. That fracas finally ends, ominously enough, with Sonny holding a loaded rifle to his father's head...
...scene concludes without bloodshed, but its importance becomes clear that night when Sonny in listening to his walkman in bed. The tape stops in the middle, and a satanic voice breaks in: "Why didn't you pull that trigger? Why didn't you shoot that pig...
Parts of the farm economy are doing well. Pig producers are thriving: demand is strong because herd size was cut last year and feed is cheap because of the grain glut. Dairy farmers stay fat at Government expense. The USDA will buy dairy products for 13.10 per Ib. no matter how low the market price drops. Such purchases this year will amount to $2 billion, or about $10,000 for every U.S. dairy farmer. The result is heaps of cheese and butter, paid for by taxpayers, 270 million lbs. of which the Government will give away this year...
SINCE THE DAY he was first elected Mayor of New York in 1977, Ed Koch has tried to do to his city what Ronald Reagan is now doing to the country. Even while economists were attacking the newly elected president last year for using America as a guinea pig in his supply-side experiment. The Wall Street Journal quietly pointed out in editorials that Reaganomics has already been applied in New York by Koch. Last week, the mayor was defeated in an expensive state-wide gubernatorial primary that few expected him to lose, which suggests that after five years...