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...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 about his habitat." Small attack big, big attack small. What drives this pointless sniping...

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

...Gautam: (Uttering a high-pitched squeal) Aiiii! Alright-alright. Let's...back away. No one becomes a dean in the Harvard administration by being dumb. It's absurd...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: A Table with Big Mouths | 12/16/1999 | See Source »

...booze-and-broads joints like Pierre's Bikini Club are etched in Miami's nefarious past. But today Laura, 35, and her husband Jeff, 36, use her family's stilt house as a weekend retreat, an octopus' garden where their children can angle for bonefish from the balcony and squeal at dolphins that come by like neighborhood gossips. "Some of us," says Laura, "still want a frontyard-backyard relationship with blue water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saving Cities Built on the Sea | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...great gap. Indeed, Stoughton and John-John became buddies of a sort. The photographer knew a good subject when he saw one and realized that someday history would treasure those images. John-John liked the captain's company, so much so that often when he saw Stoughton he would squeal, "Take my picture Taptain Toughton." And once when Stoughton had snapped a frame of John-John playing with a rabbit, he asked if the boy would take a picture of him with the rabbit. John-John took the camera with relish and clicked the shutter like a pro. In Stoughton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Boy We Called John-John | 7/26/1999 | See Source »

...glutted holiday season: with a brand loyalty earned every day for years on Nickelodeon, The Rugrats Movie has a chance to torpedo the competition. Will Disney-Pixar's entomological epic A Bug's Life run for cover under the nearest anthill? Will Babe: Pig in the City, the squeal--sorry, sequel--to the 1995 surprise hit, turn out to be so much baloney? In December, will The Prince of Egypt prove to be a hit of less than biblical proportions, and Mighty Joe Young less than all-righty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Will Rugrats Rule? | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

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