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...acre spread looks, smells and sounds like any other Kansas homestead. The weathered wooden farmhouse. The whiff of manure. The cacophony of grunting, gobbling and bleating. But the livestock at Lazy S Farms are no ordinary farm animals. Rooting about in the fields are Red Wattle pigs, a breed thought to have been imported from New Caledonia in the 1700s and practically extinct until a wild herd surfaced in Texas. The turkeys are Standard American Bronzes, which were Thanksgiving fare for more than a century but have now been reduced to some 950 breeder birds. The lambs are Katahdins...
Dewy-fresh 1930s Los Angeles becomes the ironic avatar of this darkly shadowed tale of multiple rapes-of the land, of a tragically misused woman. Film noir was a tired genre before writer Robert Towne and director Polanski made this, the best and most profound of the breed...
...lives recounted in high style. That has become the sensational British movie genre of our times. Think I'll Sleep When I'm Dead. Or Sexy Beast. Or Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. The newest, Layer Cake, is among the best of this mutt breed--undistinguished bloodlines that have somehow produced a sleek, fast-moving movie creature...
...launch a spiritual journey is to take an actual trip is fueling the adventure-travel market, especially since many adventure travelers are women in their 40s. Women who want company but don't have family or friends who feel like rafting in Costa Rica seek out a new breed of travel agency - like Gutsy Women Travel, founded by Gail Golden, 55, wife of former TWA boss Carl Icahn. Half the women who sign on for her trips are married, but their husbands aren't interested in taking cooking classes in Italy or visiting gardens in Savannah. "He likes the fact...
Actors like Lithgow are of an older, pre-“Punk’d” breed. Some other names I’d put in this category might be Bernadette Peters and Nathan Lane: they sing, they dance, and they’re multitalented and too smart for media pandering. I would never see how vital they are to American art, until Frances would tell me a lovingly embellished story about how intelligent, funny, and wise they were in a one-on-one conversation...