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...insights about life in Troy are born from observations about local idiom. When a character drops the word “hogwash,” Tassie deadpans, “I had once seen a hog washed. In whey. The hog was Helen, and she really liked it, the slop of the whey, then later a cool hose.” Her constant language-play calls attention to the separate vernaculars of Troy and Dellacrosse.  As a result, the novel establishes an unusual and rather negative role for language—that of a barrier...

Author: By Abigail B. Lind, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Meditations Of a Midwesterner | 2/2/2010 | See Source »

...manure was used for compost, and every scrap of food went into the pigs’ slop or compost pile...

Author: By Erika T. Butler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Rower Comes Back From Organic Farm | 11/5/2009 | See Source »

...Servant, turns her sneering attention to the new butler (Dirk Bogarde) and asks him, "Do you use a deodorant? Do you think you go well with the color scheme?" The father in The Homecoming calls his new lady guest "a stinking pox-ridden slut" as well as a slop bucket and a bedpan. "Take that disease away from me," he commands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pinter of Our Discontent | 12/25/2008 | See Source »

...risk morphs from a slop trough of moneymaking into a business line like any other, one that requires human beings to ask the big-picture questions that computer models don't, like, What would happen if fundamental assumptions--house prices go up, institutions are too big to fail--prove to be wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reassessing Risk | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...Every once in a while, an artist gets an inspiration that changes pop culture. Even if he's a slop artist, and the inspiration is a movie about a woman with a clitoris in her throat. Such a one was Gerard Rocco Damiano, aka Jerry Gerard, who died this weekend in Fort Myers, Fla., at 80, from complications after a stroke. With Deep Throat and his second film, Devil in Miss Jones, Damiano launched the 1970s movie craze of porno chic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Porn's Pied Piper: Deep Throat Director Dies | 10/27/2008 | See Source »

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