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...dress in Lilly’s 2004 collection is described as: “Nassau Blue Macadamia Nut House.” This seemingly odd concoction of descriptors is strangely appropriate for the Lilly look, for the “nut house” is essentially where Lilly Pulitzer as a brand all started. Born into New York society, marrying money and lacking a livelihood, Lilly, then wife of Peter Pulitzer who was grandson of the Pulitzer-Prize-Pulitzer, had a breakdown, spent the requisite New York woman’s time in a mental institution (her friends called...

Author: By Lisa M. Puskarcik, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: My Lilly’s Too Pinkalicious | 4/30/2004 | See Source »

...vein of his last work, Touching the Void, is not a clear-cut documentary; the events it examines are real, but MacDonald uses re-enactments of the story’s events to supplement a narrated account from the disaster’s survivors. The nut of their crisis: halfway through a climb, one of the two team members falls and breaks several leg bones. The other climber decides to lower his injured partner to safety, 300 feet of rope at a time, until he accidentally lowers him over a precipice. Knowing that soon both of them would tumble...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happening | 4/16/2004 | See Source »

...heart attack; in San Anselmo, Calif. After running out of steam short of the finish line in a 1983 race, he set out to create a portable, endurance-boosting food. PowerBar was launched three years later--with an initial run of 35,000 bars in chocolate and malt-nut flavors--and in 2000 was sold for a reported $375 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Apr. 5, 2004 | 4/5/2004 | See Source »

Herrmann’s characterization of his teammate is a bit blunter. “Lance is a bit of a free spirit, or a nut, to be honest,” he says...

Author: By Alex Mcphillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BASEBALL 2004: Blue Chips Bring It Both Ways | 3/25/2004 | See Source »

...total, Karns reported that he confiscated 45 clear plastic bags containing leafy and herb-like substances, as well as a foil bag marked “Betel Nut Smart Chew...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mather Student Arrested on Drug Charges | 3/22/2004 | See Source »

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