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...allegory of the Life-Force (Henri Bergson was a hot philosopher circa 1900) in the form of thousands, thousands, of pink, roly-poly babies cascading down Alpine waterfalls and through a forest glade. This condommaker's nightmare took 10 years to paint (no wonder, with all that dimpled piglet flesh) and was regarded not only as Frederic's masterpiece but also as an utterance of deep, deep depth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Stuff Modernism Overthrew | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

...finding the gene responsible for the sugar and knocking it out of the nucleus of a pig cell. Their next step would be to extract that nucleus, insert it into a hollowed-out pig ovum and insert the ovum into the womb of a host sow. The sugar-free piglet that was eventually born could then be cloned over and over as a source of safe transplant organs. "The idea is to arrive at the ideal animal and repeatedly copy it exactly as it is," says Dr. Mark Hardy, director of organ transplantation at New York-Presbyterian Hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cloning the New Babes | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

...stopping there, he then expanded on the Pooh theme. Now, all along the street are elaborate scenes involving Pooh's friends, from Piglet to Owl to Eeyore...

Author: By Eli M. Alper, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: It Was Good For Us: Cheeky 'Sex' Professor to Retire After 37 Years | 3/23/2000 | See Source »

...guess I should finish with a brief synopsis of the stuff in my room. I have three bed spreads (w/curtains)--Pooh and Tigger playing in the leaves for autumn, Pooh sledding through snowflakes for winter, and Pooh and piglet surrounded by a sunshine and clouds for spring and summer. It's a nice way of bringing the outdoors inside my room. My walls are covered with Winnie the Pooh stick-ups, which are a really nice way of brightening up all the white space. I guess I'll just list everything else I have: Pooh desk lamp, Pooh, Piglet, Tigger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: As Follows: Don't Pooh Pooh | 12/9/1999 | See Source »

...play the all-female Lilith scene). Still, she's found her own platinum niche. Her debut album, Little Earthquakes (1992), which features songs about sexual awakening, sold more than a million copies; her last, Boys for Pele (1996), which featured a photo inside of Amos breast-feeding a piglet ("My 'madonna and child'--my father always wanted me to do a Christmas card," she laughs), took its first bow at No. 2 on the Billboard charts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tori, Tori, Tori! | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

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