Word: piggishness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beast fable about a revolution devolving from idealism ("All animals are equal") to oppression ("...but some animals are more equal than others"). It's a sign of Animal Farm's power that it has never been wholly palatable. During World War II, the manuscript--painting Stalin as the (literally) piggish dictator who co-opts a barnyard revolution against humans--spooked publishers because the Soviets were allies against the Nazis. By the time an animated film was made, in 1955, the tale wasn't anti-pinko enough, so a propagandistic anti-swine uprising was added. The cold war over, Orwell...
...dealer, Sagot (both real and reputedly a patron of the Lapin Agile), pompous, self-important and fake when it comes to anything but buying and selling, lights up the stage with every appearance. Leslie Beatty as Germaine, the waitress, is sassy and direct and knows how to handle piggish men such as Picasso...
...House, Nora walks out of her domestic prison and slams the door. When men try to behave decently and pay the bills and be good fathers, and then are informed for their trouble that they are not only unimportant in the scheme of things but also vicious and piggish, they may become sufficiently disillusioned to slam the door themselves -- pre- emptively. They are warned off. A man begins to think that marriage is a very foolish choice, an overrated idea...