Word: peanuts
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Among other things, the bill should stop a plethora of misleading disease- prevention claims on foods ranging from oat-bran doughnuts and cereals to cholesterol-free peanut butter and "lite" desserts. "For too long consumers who want a healthier diet have been besieged by inaccurate nutrition claims," said Ohio Democrat Howard Metzenbaum, the bill's chief sponsor in the Senate. Now, he added, "a bold health claim on the front of the package won't be contradicted by the fine print on the back...
...should they keep American children in their preferred brand of peanut butter when Belgium has a perfectly fine one? Why should they pay to install television antennae so that the soldiers do not miss Monday Night Football every week...
Rabbit is even awed by the ingredients on his favorite brand of corn chips. "Corn, vegetable oil, (contains one or more of the following oils: peanut, cottonseed, corn partially hydrogenated soybean), salt." These, of course, are all "absolutely nots" for an overweight, 56-year old man who just got out of the hospital for angioplasty. "Doesn't sound so bad," Rabbit says lackadaisically before eating the whole...
...book, devoted to the months after the election, the glibness recedes. Kitty writes of waiting for Michael to leave in the morning, then breaking out the vodka, unplugging the phone, drawing the blinds and passing out. She drank the dregs from the wineglasses after parties and gulped peanut butter to disguise the smell. Her isolation was matched only by her shame: she had often been held up to the public as a model of a recovered addict. In the final pages, as she describes losing everything, Kitty finds her strongest voice. By the end, she'd win every vote...
...moneyed, but they soon must admit to a crucial class distinction: between the aristocracy of the desired and the proletariat of the unloved. In short, they are very like the rest of us. Though his setting and dialogue are tres swank, writer-director Whit Stillman made Metropolitan for peanut shells, and with a cast of novice screen actors. Best of all, he compliments his viewers by respecting their intelligence. Moviegoers should don their tuxes and rush out to return the favor...