Word: pinkos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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's dark parable is now up against an older ideology--the tyranny of the happy ending...
...been in public life for 31 years," the former Republican senator from Wyoming said with a smile, and "I've been called a left-wing pinko and a rightwing cuckold...and I'm the same...
...forces"--from corporate and hence, ultimately, political control. More important still, the Republicans want a carcass they can toss to their extreme right. The Christian Coalition and other Fundamentalists, such as the Rev. Donald Wildmon's religious hit squad, the American Family Association, believe PBS is a factory of pinko, homosexual, you-name-it agitprop and want to see it abolished for love of censorship...
...giving him the run-around, and eventually discovers that the American government is almost wholly responsible for his son's disappearance and execution. Along the way to these discoveries, Horman begins to sympathize with Beth and his missing son, and comes to the conclusion that they weren't pinko flower children...
...commie pinko pigs are trying to ruin our lives," said Haneen M. Rabie '95. "I'm going to Brown to escape...