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References in periodicals archive

So, Pastis, along with Chronicle Books, set out to create an elaborate iPad app called Only the Pearls that features 250 of his favorite "Pearls Before Swine" comic strips, animations done by RingTales, audio commentaries, and more than 20 videos.

Upward mobility: mobile apps are a new frontier for syndicates

"Pearls Before Swine" fails miserably in both requirements.

Passions run deep for favorite funnies

Forum: At what point did you seriously begin to entertain the notion of doing Pearls Before Swine? How did it evolve?

Forum interview with Stephan Pastis, creator of Pearls Before Swine

You can get a copy of the limited box set, Jewels Were the Stars by Pearls Before Swine for pounds 49.99 by calling our order line on 01634 832 789.

Culture: Andrew Cowen's Big world of Rock - Hardcore Rapp for the sensitive

"Misspellings" of this kind are a survival of an older and less tractable sensibility in the language--bred in the bone, as Tyndale's "the salt of the earth" and "pearls before swine" and "the powers that be" are set in our speech.

Clarity, Speed, Humility, Courage

And he reminds us how often--and perhaps how unwittingly--we still speak the words of that miraculous committee: labor of love, lick the dust, clear as crystal, a thorn in the flesh, a soft answer, the root of all evil, the fat of the land, the sweat of thy brow, hip and thigh, arose as one man, a broken reed, a word in season, how the might y are fallen, the eleventh hour, pearls before swine, a law unto themselves, weighed in the balance and found wanting, the shadow of death.

The Words for the Word

Then again, it is not a good idea to use too many encrusted "jewels," otherwise every pirouette is apt to give your ballerina the unfortunate air of casting pearls before swine.

Clothing the Naked

Melbourne, the southern hemisphere's biggest festival, now has a competitor of sorts, the Melbourne Underground Film Festival, which was established in just six weeks by Richard Wolstencroft, who was disgruntled that his feature "Pearls Before Swine" was rejected by MIFF.

Admissions up as fests boom in Oz

Messina, Italy--On Sunday, March 26, an 80-year-old Sicilian parish priest humiliated Pieruccio, an 11-year-old boy suffering from Down's Syndrome in front of all his catechism companions, by telling him that he would not hear his confession before First Communion, because "one cannot cast pearls before swine."

Bishop asks forgiveness of Down's Syndrome child (Italy)

Nowhere is the juxtaposition of the sublime and the mundane more effective than in "Pearls before Swine," in which Bioy mocks the classic romantic encounter.

Selected Stories

title, Pearls Before Swine); More Work for the Undertaker (1948); Tiger in the Smoke (1952), which revealed her psychological insight and her power to create an atmosphere of pervasive, mindless evil; and The China Governess (1962), she helped develop the detective story as a serious literary genre.

Allingham, Margery Louise

* Sending good wishes to a National Women's Political Caucus meeting while asking domestic policy aide John Ehrlichman: "Is it wise to throw pearls before swine?"

Nixon: Ruin and Recovery, 1973-1990

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