Word: piggish
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...take the blame. For if there is one serpent most easily discernible in the Garden of Eden togetherness that Americans hope for from tennis, it is the American husband. Until the advent of Women's Liberation, when men began to be accused of a certain piggish dominance again, a sociologist's easy generalization about the American middle-class husband was that he had lost his domestic clout. It is hardly more than a decade, in fact, since wits began describing the commuting husband as a "yard man with sex privileges." Now it appears that whatever happened...
Although the reasons for this discriminatory policy have changed since I was a freshman, the policy of Harvard is as piggish as an educational institution can be. On the one had President Bok is trying to cause a stir about an educational revolution, and on the other he wishes to maintain a repressive force which has forced his corporation into an ignorant position. I call it ignorant because the reason it is important is for the people's sake, not an institution's. This policy is as repressive to the male as the female because it lowers the standard...
Cabaret. with Liza Minelli, Joel Grey, Michael York. Another movie about German decadence, but this one plays cleaner than most. Which isn't saying much. Its Germans are on the whole a piggish disreputable bunch. There is your bisexual decaying aristocrat, your mother loving young men, the soldiers who seem to like each other better than the women. Joel Grey is terrific, and Minelli's "Money, Money" would make just about anything worthwhile. Cinema Kenmore Square...
Cabaret. with Liza Minelli, Joel Grey, Michael York. Another movie about German decadence, but this one plays cleaner than most. Which isn't saying much. Its Germans are on the whole a piggish disreputable bunch. There is your bisexual decaying aristocrat, your mother loving young men, the soldiers who seem to like each other better than the women. Joel Grey is terrific, and Minelli's "Money, Money" would make just about anything worthwhile. Cinema Kenmore Square...
...protect his family, it's his lack of control that starts a costly gang war that ends in his death. Caan's part is different than the other thugs he's played: he animates his body with a high-strung rage barely controlled. When he lets go, dragging a piggish brother-in-law through the streets and bashing his body with a garbage can, the effect is exhilarating...