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Word: piggish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...company's shareholders, the initials PG&E stand for Pacific Gas & Electric, the largest U.S. commercial supplier of electricity. But more and more of the California utility's customers prefer "Piggish, Greedy and Egotistic" instead. In recent months residents from Oregon to the Mexican border have been hit with unimaginably steep jumps in their electric bills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Shock | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

...what Beth Henley's plays are made of. The Delta ladies who inhabit Henley's comic universe can be found a few miles south of Jackson, Miss., and just this side of Bananas. There is Babe Botrelle, whose Crimes of the Heart are to shoot her piggish husband (because "I just didn't like his looks") and to keep close company with a 15-year-old black boy. Popeye Jackson, from The Miss Firecracker Contest, knits tiny jumpsuits for frogs and "can hear voices through my eyes" ever since her brother put ear drops in them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: I Go with What I'm Feeling | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

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