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After the cow was safely lassoed to the ground and the caged pig praised for its attractive snout, Crystal said he thoroughly enjoyed clowning around on the Hasty Pudding stage...

Author: By Joyce K. Mcintyre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Billy Crystal Receives Pudding Pot After Praising Pig | 2/18/2000 | See Source »

...here is H.L. Mencken's generous assessment of Henry James: "an idiot and a Boston idiot to boot, than which there is nothing lower in this world." And William Allen White's gracious description of Mencken: "With a pig's eyes that never look up, with a pig's snout that loves muck, with a pig's brain that knows only the sty, and a pig's squeal that cries only when he is hurt, he sometimes opens his pig's mouth, tusked and ugly, and lets out the voice of God, railing at the whitewash that covers the manure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Writers Attack Writers | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

...Meet Sony's AIBO (Artificial Intelligence Robot), a foot-tall plastic pup, powered by computer chip, that can walk, sit, lie down, even raise a paw in the air. Stroke a sensor on its head, and AIBO wags its tail; throw a ball, and a digital camera in its snout will track it. A remote control turns it left or right. Available at www.world.sony.com/robot/for $2,500, AIBO costs more than most purebreds. But it doesn't shed, can't dig holes in the yard and needs no food or water. Best of all, you never have to clean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Technology May 24, 1999 | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

...creature with a long thin snout like a crocodile, thick legs like tree trunks, huge curved claws like meat hooks..." --San Francisco Chronicle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Nov. 23, 1998 | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

...size of a city bus with 16-in., hook-shaped thumb claws and a snout like a mutant crocodile..." --Washington Post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Nov. 23, 1998 | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

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