Word: pruning
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...very deep wrinkles. It does not help sags or bags or very loose skin. People who need a face-lift are not going to get any benefit." Dermatologist Jerome Shupack of New York University School of Medicine puts it more bluntly: "Retin-A won't do much for a prune." Indeed, some physicians wonder about the popularity of the drug at all. "The only thing I see Retin-A doing is irritating the skin and increasing the susceptibility to sun damage and thus to skin cancer," says Dr. Carl Korn of the University of Southern California Medical School...
...something old, something borrowed and something very blue. The plot, about an amiable gang of two-bit black crooks trying to burgle a Chicago pawnshop, is adapted from a 1958 Italian film, Big Deal on Madonna Street. Fosse, who wrote the book, stubbornly resisted advice to simplify the narrative, prune out tasteless jokes involving a urinal and a simulated oral- sex act, add more dance and brighten what he admitted was a "melancholy" ending. The score, too, is recycled: standards from the '20s and '30s have been wittily reconsidered by Fosse and bewitchingly orchestrated by Ralph Burns...
...century--passed his domestic life on automatic pilot, while his mind found refuge and flourished in the Waste Land. The play's Tom (Edward Herrmann) finds it "an enormous effort to be trivial" with people. He husbands his passion for the empty page. He is the hollow man, a prune and a prude with the secret sin of genius, which must not be dissipated in ordinary intercourse. This Olympian diffidence, Hastings suggests, was sufficient to make the young scholar from St. Louis a figure of fun to his English in-laws--and perhaps enough to drive his wife...
...convalescing in Puerto Rico from a mugger's bullet that chipped his hipbone. The wound initially looked worse than it was, because the second shot shattered a half-gallon of Gallo Hearty Burgundy that Mora was carrying, along with a jar of Ragu spaghetti sauce and a bottle of prune juice. The items suggest that the lieutenant is no oenophile, dislikes cooking and suffers from constipation. More important, a grocery list is Leonard's shorthand way of establishing his hero's endearing authenticity as a middle-aged widower who, despite badge and gun, falls victim to street crime...
...billion freeze in late 1983 and the citrus-canker epidemic in 1984, the icy blast destroyed the last hopes of some farmers in north-central Florida that they could survive in the business. Crops are smaller for as long as ten years after a freeze because farmers must drastically prune back the damaged trees or replace them with saplings. "We're in this to make a living, and you just can't keep pouring money in," said John Kennedy, a grower near Umatilla. "There has to be a stopping time, and I think this...