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...cause death. "I was completely shocked and surprisingly emotional," says Stefanie Jones, who burst into tears when daughter Darby was diagnosed four months ago with egg, milk, wheat, and peanut allergies. "I realized I'm going to have that weird kid at the party with the dairy-free, prune juice cookies...
...dismissive remarks with some questions. First, if the tree was, in fact, a safety hazard in 2004, why did Harvard leave it standing there? Why didn’t they apply to the City to have it removed then? And why did the City’s experts prune the tree at about the same time? Second, in 2005, when construction began at the Grant Street site, why hadn’t Harvard provided a “tree surround” to protect the tree’s trunk and buttress roots from the heavy equipment? Was it because...
...since the 1970s, yogurt has emerged from its former sour self into the lid-lickable treat that helps us lose weight, feel better about being parents and indulge without guilt. The brand we buy might even improve our digestion and the environment simultaneously. Try that with prune juice...
Payne applies his brand of direct, specific realism to both wine and filmmaking, and the two collided when he gave his Sideways propmaster instructions to make fake wine that looked like the real varietals. Though the Pinot looked like Pinot, it meant disgusting concoctions like prune and cranberry juice. "The actors rebelled," Payne says. "After a few takes, they said, 'Can you just give us the real stuff...
Take writer-director Nancy Meyers' Something's Gotta Give, in which Jack Nicholson plays Harry, an aging playboy who happens to catch a glimpse of his young girlfriend's mom (Diane Keaton) in the nude. What with her feminist overachieving and all, she has become something of a prune, sexually speaking. But he has his charms, and one rainy day she succumbs to them. Nothing wrong with that. Their sex scene, despite what Meyers reports as a certain understandable shyness by her players, is agreeably managed. What's less agreeable is this movie's smugness. It's so pleased...