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Much as Miss Piggy might like to claim that moi is responsible, the porker boom began long before the Muppets' superstar made her bow. Miss P., sniffs Lucinda Vardey, co-author of the anthology of pig lore, Pigs: A Troughful of Treasures (Macmillan; $14.95), "has done a lot for pig relations, but she is not a true pig. She is purely human and has very few pig qualities." Vardey's collaborator, Sarah Bowman, feels that the pig boomlet has ancient roots. "The love of pigs is an inborn thing," she says. "I have always thought that wallowing...
Though the feisty young company so far shows no signs of stumbling, corporate success has claimed two casualties: the Harp and Ely marriages. Says Bob of his separation from Lore last year: "It was an ego conflict. She wanted to do things one way; I wanted to do them another." Says Carole Ely: "I was running away from a marriage into a company...
...years ago, the fondest hope of Carole Ely and Lore Harp was to escape the bored-housewives trap and do something really bold like, say, opening a travel agency. When Lore's husband Bob, a scientist at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, Calif., suggested that they think big and take a plunge into computers instead, they responded with what amounted to uncomprehending stares. Neither knew the first thing about the exotic world of computers...
Talk with any member of the Pirates company, and what you are likely to hear is a succession of admiring stories about other members of the cast. Basic Pirates lore, told from different viewpoints, is an account of the night on Broadway when the pit band came in drunk from a Christmas party and couldn't toot together or on key. Ronstadt, making her first entrance, a point at which she must sing Poor Wandering One in a way that tells everyone who's boss, heard their clamor and got the giggles. She couldn't stop...
...much repeated piece of West Texas lore has it that mesquite traveled up from Mexico a century or two ago in the droppings of pack animals. This seems to be false, an effort possibly to blame the noxious plant on foreign influences (a Mexican might point out that in Texas, it was the Anglos who were the foreigners). Mesquite evidently is a native, but drought and overgrazing of the land apparently have encouraged it to spread until it has become an epidemic. Years ago, the Indians of the Southwest lived happily with the stuff. They used mesquite for fuel, shade...