Word: pigheadedness
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Women and men have competed head-to-head in professional sports before, but the spectacle has always been somewhat less than satisfying. Billy Jean King beat Bobby Riggs on the floor of the Astrodome back in the '60s. And while the victory was gratifying for King and anyone who had...
It is easy, far too easy, to poke fun at these idiosyncrasies. What Murdoch can do surpassingly well is move a narrative. Once caught in her grip, the reader flies through myriad complications, signal switches and genuine surprises. The Message to the Planet is not her strongest book. It chronicles...
Sir Winston Churchill once observed that dogs look up to us, cats look down on us, but pigs treat us as equals. Mary Kalish tends to agree. "A pig is more like having another family member than a pet," she says. Indeed, the historic relationship of man and pig, dating...
For her twelfth novel, British Author and Playwright Fay Weldon has taken a giddy leap back to the fiction style of the 19th century. Enough of angst and ambiguity, of literary experiment. Bring on Trollope's nudging narrator and Dickens' moral confidence. The Hearts and Lives of Men -- surely a...
Whenever these diversionary tales threaten to get interesting, the She-rat interrupts with further animadversions against Homo sapiens. The narrator complains, "Her talk, that nasal piping, grumbling, muttering, went on and on." Indeed it does, drowning everything, including patience, in a sea of recrimination and invective. The preachiness of The...