Word: boar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city's latest culinary triumph is the Fountain, in the Four Seasons Hotel that opened in 1983. Delectable and pricey masterpieces include the wild-boar pate, shrimp-filled ravioli in a frothy, piquant butter sauce, and a stylish appetizer salad of snow peas and tender slivers of warm, sauteed squid. A golden-brown turnip sauce burnishes a sauteed veal chop, juicy roast pheasant tops cabbage mellowed with bacon, and hazelnuts accent a silky chocolate ramekin...
Daryl Van Horne (Jack Nicholson), a newcomer to Eastwick, is everything the women crave, fear, pity, hate. He is, in other words, a man. In public, he snores like a boar. His jokes smell, and he does too. He is, he admits with the grin of a baby Hitler, "just your average horny little devil." With a capital D. Big Bad Beelzebub. But devilry in New England is not what it used to be. Women suspected of having sex with Satan are not burned at the stake; they are snubbed in the check-out line. And in an age when...
...idea, I must confess, is not original. Recently, a wild boar attacked a Pakistan Air Force F-16 as it was taking off and, according to UPI, the animal knocked off the nosewheel. Although the pilots ejected safely, the $30 million plane was completely destroyed when it crashed on the runway as a result of the attack...
...proving that she's got all of Pakistan behind her. Or could it be that some Indian militarists hired a dissident on a freelance basis? We'll never really know who put the animal up to it; impervious to General Zia's customary interrogations by torture, the boar is keeping...
...West should not be too quick to denigrate the military value of boars, given their proven effectiveness. Let's look at the incident from a tactical point of view; talk about cost effectiveness, and talk about cost effectiveness, and talk about a great kill ratio. And for the best part--can you think of any red-blooded American boar who wouldn't have gladly done the same to a Soviet MiG, given the opportunity...