Word: apricot
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...unremarkable study of an open door giving onto the sea in Brittany. It reappears, in a way that promises its eventual form, in a small picture from 1901-02, Studio Under the Eaves -- a brown, dim room with a blaze of sacramental light at the end, a glimpse of apricot wall and flowering tree. From then on it will appear whenever he is at full pitch: in The Open Window, 1905, as he is creating the speckled, radically colored world of Fauvism at Collioure in the south of France; in the great "decorative" paintings of 1908-12 like Conversation...
...computer that changes shelf prices for 2,000 to 4,000 items a week and coordinates them with check-out registers. And at Safeway, the nation's third largest chain (after American Stores and Kroger), customers can shop from home, using a computerized catalog system to order anything from apricot jelly to zucchini. Shoppers can transmit an order, charge it to their credit card, and have delivery arranged -- all without a word to anyone at the store...
...drinking on Coco Cay's white sand beach. "Bring me another Bahama Mama," yells Danny Rivero, 23, from amid 102 degrees hot-tub bubbles high up on the ship's sun deck. Fellow passenger Renato Deoliveira, 19, obediently passes along a lethal concoction of 151-proof Myers's rum, apricot brandy, coconut rum and fruit punch, while Ted and Kay LaTour, a Milwaukee couple in their 60s, laugh indulgently and sink lower in the froth. "Supposedly we're in a recession," says Ted. "But you look around this cruise and wonder...
...some of the fruit-based ice creams. Apricot is terrific. Chocolate lovers, too, will be pleased at the variety of ways they have to satisfy their addiction. It's tough to go wrong here, except that the frappes are extremely thick, and practically guarantee atherosclerosis...
...principles for drug approval. Penicillin couldn't get through that fast." While some modification of FDA regulations may have been necessary, many people believe that the changes being made at the FDA to accommodate AIDS activists threaten a system that has protected the public from quack cures, like the apricot pits once touted for cancer sufferers...