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...dammit, WOODY HARRELSON is a marketing genius. Realizing that Los Angeles is exactly the sort of place where people will pay top dollar for something free and plentiful, he opened O2, an oxygen bar, which offers patrons a mouthful of oxygen-enriched air for $13 a hit (laced with lemon or lime, it costs an extra $2). Brilliant as it is, it's not as good an idea as the SunSpot, a round towel on which beach goers could rotate themselves to remain in the sun's direct light throughout the course of the day. Sadly, the towels never caught...
...mention something about the banana. It was--How best to put this?--an unfortunate banana. Small, spotty and bruised--not at all the best environment, as the Madison Avenue folks say, for any ad. But when you're advertising on fruit, you're bound to get the occasional lemon...
...disorder made its first major public appearance three years ago, when Princess Diana confessed that the strain of her marriage had caused her to throw herself down the staircase and cut herself with razors, pen knives and lemon slicers. "You have so much pain inside yourself," she said in an interview with the BBC, "you try and hurt yourself on the outside because you need help." Says Steven Levenkron, a pioneer in the study of anorexia and author of two books on self-injury: "It feels like an epidemic, but it's an epidemic of disclosure. And I credit Diana...
...fresh produce if at all possible. Canned spinach is a horror. I prefer to wilt 10 oz. of spinach quickly in a covered skillet with a little water and lemon juice or with some garlic and a teaspoon of olive oil. It takes just three minutes to steam broccoli until it's bright green and a little crunchy--and it then retains its vitamins and other nutrients...
...despite Tabrizi's pure-cream frosting and sour lemon syrup, the baking wasn't going as planned...