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...first great achievement among his series was the Grainstacks of 1890-91. Monet painted at least 25 of them, and they seem almost polemical because their subject looks so odd and raw. What are these things? Anonymous structures of oats and wheat, circular, with conical tops. They look like primitive lumps, soft rocks. Why paint a lump? Partly, no doubt, because the grainstacks implied abundance, the nurturing power of deep France. But mainly because, in their very simplicity, they were a superb matrix for the changing effects of light and color. Sometimes Monet's grainstacks glow like furnaces, their shadow...
...conscious health nut who craves a peanut butter sandwich: Skippy peanut butter claims to have "less sugar than other leading national brands," then fails to list how much it has. Wonder Light white bread trumpets "no cholesterol," but few breads these days have cholesterol, not even Taystee Butter Top wheat bread or Thomas' English muffins -- and neither of them makes such claims. And how can Colombo Nonfat Lite Yoghurt be nonfat when its label lists "less than...
...Ireland as Oliver Cromwell reduced the population from 1,466,000 to 616,000 in one decade in the mid-17th century. The white is not as pale as the faces of the millions who died during the famine of the 1840s while the British estate owners exported Irish wheat and livestock to pay for their extravagant lifestyles...
...African leaders and weathermen wearing Indian headdresses. They must also project a warm, cozy, familial glow. Pauley, with her big-sister perkiness, had it. So does Good Morning America's Joan Lunden, who is no newswoman but goes down as easy in the morning as mom's Cream of Wheat. Is it just a coincidence that both of them are also very public mothers...
...diarrhea than some. In a study performed at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Dr. Frank Sacks and colleagues randomly switched 20 healthy men and women between two six-week diets: one contained 100 grams of oat bran daily, the other 100 grams of low-fiber wheat. Cholesterol levels dropped an average 7.5% -- no matter the diet. The simple explanation: both grains work indirectly by displacing other items in the diet. People who fill up on oat bran or wheat have less room for scrambled eggs, chocolate cake and other fatty delectables...