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...locals of Hama Village know what to do with a fat, smelly truffle. For centuries, if the village pigs in this remote corner of China's Yunnan province were acting a little less amorous than normal, the farmers fed a shovelful of truffles to the creatures in order to guarantee a future litter of piglets. Then, a few years ago, a strange tale wended its way through this hamlet, so disconnected from modern China that Cultural Revolution slogans from three decades ago are still inscribed on the village's mud-brick walls: foreigners, for some mysterious reason, were willing...
...wondrous bestiary tended by young Taran and his winsome would-be princess Eilonwy. The menagerie includes Hen Wen, the clairvoyant pig, whose bottom is rounder and wigglier than Madonna's; Gurgi, whose species is unknown, but who is definitely cute, cuddly and comical; the Fairfolk, minuscule fairy creatures who come and go in clouds of Disneydust; and the three witches, who are more funny than frightening. Leading the forces of evil is the Horned King. His body is skeletal, his voice sepulchral, and his eyes glow red like coals. His aide-de-camp is a little green horror known appropriately...
...recounted the story of a Korsmeyer family trip to the Corn Palace in South Dakota, where Korsmeyer, the son of a livestock farmer, spied a one-ton concrete pig. Korsmeyer, by then the father of two boys, shipped the pig home—“by ground, because pigs don’t fly”—and set it up in his yard as a “symbol of pride in his humble roots...
Laura H. Owen ’06, an English and American Literature and Language concentrator in Leverett House, recently adopted a guinea pig, which is kind of like a fiancé, only much more adorable...
...such compunctions about money. Koons, a former commodities trader, publicized his 1988 "Banality" show with color-photo magazine ads that showed him on a pony being fed cake by a model in a bikini--the artist as king of the world. In another he was cavorting with pigs. Thinking back on that ad now, Koons has a simple explanation. "I thought I would call myself a pig before the viewer could, so they could only think more of me," he says. And anyway, he has had the last laugh. He turned out to be one of the most successful artists...