Word: pigging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Congress approves the tax bill and adds $21 billion in fiscal 1983 revenue, the deficit is expected to be as high as $150 billion.) "For a conservative President like me to have to put his arms around a multibillion-dollar deficit is like holding your nose and embracing a pig," the President admitted. But the way to get a grip on the "slippery" deficit, he declared, was to raise revenues. It is "the price we have had to pay" to get more spending cuts through Congress. Reagan placed the blame on past Administrations, declaring, "If I could correct 40 years...
...Republic and a meeting with a nuclear physicist. Since being sentenced to a commune to grow tomatoes, she told Deng, the scientist said he felt much happier and more productive. Replied Deng politely: "He lied." Such rosy reports have been as predictable as the years of the Monkey, Pig and Goat, but from time to time, a Dengian antidote has been offered. Fox Butterfield's China: Alive in the Bitter Sea and Richard Bernstein's From the Center of the Earth supply in valuable truths to counter the diseases that afflict so many tourists: romanticism and naivet...
More than most ruggers, Roberts has helped fashion the mythic legacy that surrounds the club--beer on the sidelines during games, raucous road trips, the unspeakable annual pig roast, and one of the-finest won-lost records in the country...
...rapidly growing mound of pig literature includes a racy paperback cartoon book called Pigs in Love (Clarkson N. Potter; $3.95), about Porkov and Daisy, whose amours are described as "an adult love story for pigs and sows everywhere." The author-artist, Revilo (real name: Oliver Christiansen), was originally commissioned to do a cat book but found felines "too aloof." Says...
...Pigs really know how to live. That's why I started drawing them instead of people." Another successful volume is The Pig-Out Diet Book, published (at $2.95) by the Bacon Printing Co. and written by two New England doctors, Bernhoff Dahl and David Fingard. The book prescribes a regimen of no breakfast, no lunch, but a "pig out" dinner; it has sold some 16,000 copies...