Word: pigging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...religious parties] are interested not inthe irrelevant issues such as economic stability,the PLO and Israeli borders, but instead focus onthe eternal issues--whether Jews should be able toeat pig meat, whether movies should be open onSaturdays," Peretz said. "It is painful to see thefuture of the government, the psychologicalrealities of the Jewish people, determined byprimitive and fanatical...
...TIME correspondents covering the 1988 presidential campaign have spent so much time on airplanes that they occasionally yearn for the pleasures of an overcrowded Scenicruiser. Los Angeles correspondent Michael Riley has developed a love- < hate relationship with Michael Dukakis' 737 campaign jet, which the press corps has dubbed "Sky Pig." "When it's 100 degrees on the tarmac, condensation on the inside of the plane creates a tropical rain forest in the aisle," says Riley. Sometimes the plane seems to fly about as well as a log in one of those rain forests, and reporters have nervously taken to timing...
...solid, believable performance. But the scene is disturbing, not only because it is emotionally manipulative, but also because it suggests that the Popes have forgotten that their sacrifice was a protest against bourgeois ideals. Annie goes back to her father, whom she once described as an "imperialist pig" for help in sending her son to Juilliard, which is a kind of bourgeois shrine. The scene could have been plausible if we had seen Annie struggle with these inconsistencies. Instead, her actions prove that the Popes are in no way different from any other middle-class family except that they occasionally...
Olga. Nadia. Mary Lou. Their first names alone are the way we remember them, the last names seemingly too tedious and weighty for ones so petite. Olga Korbut was the scrawny, pig-tailed brunet at the 1972 Munich Games who, with her double-jointed contortions and infectious grin, convinced us that human hearts beat within the bodies of robotic Soviet athletes. Four years later at the Montreal Games, it was a long-limbed brooding Rumanian, Nadia Comaneci, who stole hearts by posting the first perfect 10s ever in Olympic gymnastics competition. Then in Los Angeles in 1984, American Mary...
...spot breakdowns, to which they immediately dispatch tow trucks that dispense free gasoline if a motorist needs it. Chicago's highway authority operates a huge mobile crane, dubbed Mad Max, that can lift up to 60 tons, and has moved obstacles ranging from semitrailers to a 500-lb. runaway pig...