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Among the best bets of all are tomatoes, which can be raised on window ledges, rooftops, even fire escapes and can keep the family in preserves and frozen pasta sauce all winter. A 15-ft. row of tomato plants can produce up to 100 Ibs. per season at a saving, says Fell, of at least $33. Squash, beans, peas and lettuce will also reward the diligent gardener with bountiful crops. This year, for the fashionable or the finicky, seed-growers are even offering blue potatoes, yellow melons, purple beans and yellow beets...
WHAT UNITES everything, from the first frame of the film to the last, is the inexorability of revenge. Those who live by the sword may not always die by the sword (Marion Brando died of a heart attack in a tomato garden) but they are forced to go on living by the sword. Vito's father, we learn in the beginning of this film, was an honest man killed by a Sicilian don for refusing to be intimidated, twenty years later. Vito returns to draw an ugly line down the old man's belly with a stiletto. He has succumbed...
...Weather. There were other difficulties. The character of Clemenza, the family loyalist who taught Michael how to shoot and make a good tomato sauce with meatballs in Part I, was written out. Reason: Richard Castellano, who played him, was making exorbitant demands, including a huge salary and the right to rewrite his dialogue. Then the script was redone once again, three days before the scheduled start, after conferences between Coppola and Pacino about adding "shadows" to Michael's character...
...York's Lower East Side but through their relationships with him and with each other, as they talk about a recent trip to Italy, argue or bicker or tease. Scorsese even defies that eternal cliche of Italian-American life by showing his mother cooking meat balls and tomato sauce. At film's end, in gleeful tribute, he includes the recipe in the credits. Italianamerican has a kind of impulsive immediacy and is rich in the sort of raucous humor that people can create only when they are not conscious of being overheard...
...Levy-Shea offers not only a 30-minute yoga session but also a low-calorie lunch (sample menu: organic apple juice, four raw string beans, tomato wedges, sliced cucumber, green pepper, celery, radish, figs, unsalted cashew nuts and a slice of Russian black bread with a hunk of Norwegian Jarlsberg cheese). Regular yoga conditioning, says Levy, "reduces colds and other respiratory problems. People say they have fewer headaches and sleep sounder." It also-Masters and Johnson, please note -improves one's sex life. Sex? Well, explains Levy, "you have fewer tensions, you're relaxed, and you learn...