Word: grass
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Located on the corner of Church and Brattle, Harnett's is a clean, sweet-smelling store that sells all sorts of alternative remedies from aromatherapy to wheat grass juice. Health-seekers can choose to just browse all of their 'feel good, smell sexy' products and settle into the reading corner to look through the library of good-livin' fetishes...
...salesperson recommended Echinacea Special Formula Tea with peppermint leaf, scintillating wild cherry bark and lemon grass (tangy!) for $3.99. An alternative is the Wellness Formula ($10.98) made of, among other things, garlic powder and ginseng. "It makes you sweat" explained the bespectacled assistant, "You sweat out all the toxins." Hmmm. Another option is the honey-based homeopathic cough syrup...
Although these potions are costly, Harnett's will accept checks in an emergency at the Natural Juices bar. For a mere $3.50 one can enjoy their fresh mango and banana fruit smoothies. However, the more adventurous should try a wheat grass drink. This bright green liquid comes in a shot glass. The bartender cuts grass from a white plastic tray of growing stalks and puts it in a special metal grinder to get the juice. But this isn't just any grass, this is wheat grass, and it can perform miracles. It is a (take a deep breath) body building...
...Everybody is worried about the weather," Browning said. "I walked out on the field [yesterday], and the grass underneath seemed fine, but we will have to get a little lucky...
Gregory said that success in local politics is heavily dependent on grass-roots campaigning...