Word: canyon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cooney began to work for his $10 million in toasty Palm Springs, Calif, (to simulate the dry, hot climate of Las Vegas), under a gleaming white tent pitched behind the Canyon Hotel. At suppertime the parking lot was still steaming. The challenger appeared for his ring work every evening at 5 o'clock, to a tape of George Benson's mellow ballad The Greatest Love of All. Said Cooney dreamily: "Listen to the words." As his dainty hands were being double-bandaged by Trainer Victor Valle, the fighter sang along: ". . . Let the children's laughter remind us how we used...
...seldom turns off the TV set in his Coldwater Canyon house in Beverly Hills. But TV dramatic shows make him wince because their makers are so clearly contemptuous of their audience. Actually, he says, audiences are very sophisticated about film, so that making a movie like Raiders is like "some kind of kinetic chess-if you don't stay five moves ahead of them, you're dead...
...people travel? Judge it first, dispassionately, by its trophies. The tourists at the North Pole had cameras. Their slides from the adventure will be more exciting than millions of others to be assembled this season from the Grand Canyon and Peking and Machu Picchu and Nice...
Karma is the physical-fitness guru of Canyon Ranch. Named Karma 39 years ago by her wonderfully prescient father, she loves her work, loves the "aura and tranquillity" of the ranch, and loves the guests no matter what. "You are carrying a lot of anger," she advises the grumblers. They melt at once. "I'm 63, I'm an old, fat smoker, I'm out of control," explodes the most discontented. "Awww," coos Karma, "you need some warm fuzzy." The man retires peacefully dreaming of a massage...
...entirely. Next door to the ranch, Mel, the hard-driving relaxer, is tearing up the desert to make room for a Canyon Ranch town-house development...